How long does a president's term last?
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4 years, and they can go for 2 terms. 8 years total if elected twice.
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Depends on the state.  It's set by the state constitution, but I believe most are 4 years.
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Since you have a bunch of conflicting answers, allow me to weigh in on the correct one, which is B.  The election will occur in 2004; however, the term to which he was elected in 1998 will not actually expire until January 3, 2005 (the new Congress convenes on the 3rd of January in every odd year), just as the President's term of office will expire on January 20, 2009.
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Typical of all administrations. Actually Bush has had statistically a longer running cabinet then most overall. Check out Clinton's turnove rate........very very very very high.\n\nSeveral Clinton Cabinet members did not even make it through the first term (Espy and Cisneros resigned in 1996 and both faced criminal investigations over the next few years) and one died while conducting an overseas trip on department business (Ron Brown). A few simply decided that four years was enough and asked not to be reappointed when Clinton began his second term in 1997.\n\nOnly four out of the 14 Cabinet members served through both Clinton terms (Reno, Riley, Shalala, and Babbit) and only Shalala seemed to avoid massive criticism.
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Section One of Article II of the U.S. Constitution states that the President must be a natural born citizen of the United States (or a citizen of the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), at least 35 years of age, and resident of the United States for at least fourteen years.
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"Congressmen" is another term for members of the U.S. House of Representatives.  All representatives are elected for 2-year terms, with elections held in November during the even-number years.\n\nU.S. senators, on the other hand, are elected to 6-year terms.  The terms are staggered so that every 2 years, roughly a third of the senate seats have elections.  These elections are held at the same time as the congressional elections.\n\nSometimes if someone resigns in the middle of a term, there will be a special election to replace him/her.  Those special elections can be any time and in any year.
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well remember fdr ran for 4 terms after that a const. admt was passes limiting his term for 10 years max (2 elected term ans 2 year if he was the vp and the previous president died or left office)
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Federal and State offices are regulated by the respective constitutions (federal and state). The people placed a limitation on the office of the President, but not on the offices of Congress and Senate (the conservatives have called for term limits but say they cannot have them unilaterally until the people who oppose them are removed from office). Some states have also placed limits on their governors and some have not.
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They serve until their term is over. If they served until the war was over every President would start a war near the end of their term.
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It will be two more years before the Presidential Election.  John McKane, maybe.  Two years is a long time.  Bush will have served his time.  We will have to find someone to take his place.
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No he cannot.  After FDRs death in 1945.  The house and Senate passed a amendment limiting the time a person can be president.  8 Years if elected or 10 Years if the person was a vice president and the president died two years into the term and then the person ran for election.
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as many times as the voters elect him/her. the senate and the house do not have term limits at the federal level. \nsome states do have term limits for state senators and legislators.
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Running for what office? You can obviously run as much as you want if you're not successfully elected. \n\nA U.S. president can only be elected for two terms total, if that's what you mean.
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Yes.  President Harrison (9th president) was only in office for 32 days.  He caught pneumonia during his inauguration speech, and died a month later.
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Senators serve six-year terms. John Kerry's last re-election to the Senate was in 2002, so he was still in mid-term when he ran for President 2 years ago. Yes, he's still in the Senate. Most Senators who ran for President, while in the middle of their term, and lost remained in the Senate.\n\nBut Kerry's running mate, John Edwards of North Carolina, was a Senator who had been elected in 1998, so his 6-year term was ending when he ran for the ticket in 2004. Per the law of North Carolina, he could not run for re-election to the Senate while also simultaneously running on the national ticket. So Edwards is no longer in the Senate.\n\nThe law is not the same in all states. A couple of states in which a candidate can both run on the Presidential ticket and run for U.S. Senate in the very same election are Connecticut and Texas. Six years ago, Joe Lieberman ran for re-election to the Senate at the same time he was Al Gore's running-mate. Obviously, Lieberman won re-election to the Senate, but did not win the national election. In the past, two Senators who represented Texas ran both for re-election to the Senate and also were running-mates on the national ticket at the same time: Lyndon B. Johnson in 1960 and Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.\n\nBy mentioning Johnson, I can now segue into another one of your questions. When Johnson was re-elected to the Senate and elected Vice President at the same time in 1960, he obviously had to resign from the Senate before he was sworn in as Veep. That meant his seat was then vacant.\n\nAnytime vacancies occur in a seat for the U.S. Senate, how the vacancy gets filled depends on the law of the state. There is no national law directing the subject. In most states, the Governor has the power to appoint a new Senator to fill the vacancy. And if the vacancy occurred with only 2 years left in the term or less, then that appointee will serve the remainder of that term. Oftentimes, the vacancy occurs with more than 2 years left, in which case the state will schedule a special election so that the voters can determine who will serve the remainder of the term.\n\nHowever, in some states the Governor does not have the power to appoint anyone to fill a vacancy. In those states the seat will simply remain vacant until a special election is held. Oklahoma and Oregon are two examples of that. In 1995, Republican Senator Bob Packwood resigned in mid-term with 3 1/2 years left of his term. His seat remained vacant for a few months while the legislature authorized a special election to be held. When Ron Wyden won that special election, he then held the seat for the remaining 3 years of the term originally begun by Packwood.
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6 years.  Terms are staggered so that roughly 1/3 of the Senate is up for re-election in every two year cycle, and the two Senators from each state have their terms expire in different years.
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No, as a former two term president he has already served 8 of the maximum 10 years that are allowed and if anything happened to President Hillary he could not fill out the term unless it is less than two years. In as much as it would be a four year term that would make it impossible.