Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and South Carolina Republican Representative Ralph Norman drafted a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.

The amendment would restrict Senate members to two six-year terms and House members to three two-year terms. Cruz has filed the proposal in every Congress for the past eight years.

“The Founding Fathers envisioned a government of citizen legislators who would serve for a few years and return home, not a government run by a small group of special interests and lifelong, permanently entrenched politicians who prey upon the brokenness of Washington to govern in a manner that is totally unaccountable to the American people,” Cruz remarked in a statement.

For members of the Senate who fill a vacancy, that period only counts toward one of the two terms if the member fills the vacancy for three or more years, while the same standard applies for members of the House who fill a vacancy if they serve for more than one year in that period.

Cruz won reelection for his third term in the Senate last year, meaning that he has exceeded the term limit standard in his own constitutional amendment, but the proposal exempts previous terms served by current members of Congress from counting toward the overall term limit tally.

“Term limits bring about long-overdue accountability,” the statement from Cruz continued. “I urge my colleagues to advance this amendment to the states so that it may be quickly ratified.”

One survey from Pew Research Center two years ago showed that some 87% of respondents supported “limiting the number of terms that members of Congress are allowed to serve,” while another 79% likewise supported “maximum age limits for elected officials in Washington.”

The renewed proposal for term limits in Congress indeed comes after many leaders in the legislative body faced criticism in recent years for refusing to retire despite their advanced age.

Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would step down from serving as Senate Minority Leader last year, while California Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi made a similar move three years ago, although both retained their seats. McConnell, who is eighty-two, and Pelosi, who is eighty-four, have each experienced recent age-related injuries.