Eagle Forum National Constitutional Issues Chairman
Janine Hansen, 775-397-6859, director@nevadafamilies.org
March 2, 2026, In the Year of Our Lord
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HEARING: Tuesday, March 3, 1:30pm MT
HCR 23 Article V Convention for Amendment
On Congressional Term Limits.
IDAHO Hearing in House Judiciary, Rules & Administration Committee, Room EW42: Register to Testify:
Written Testimony Email to: hjud@house.idaho.gov
Watch the Hearing: https://www.idahoptv.org/
MESSAGE for Representatives who voted Yes on the Art. V Constitutional Amendments Convention on a Balanced Budget earlier this Session: Please vote No on HCR23 applying for an Article V Constitutional Amendments Convention for Congressional Term Limits. With Term Limits the unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists will be making the decisions, instead of Congressmen. Every election we have term limits. The Term Limits organization’s argument that they only want to “scare” Congress into passing an amendment is like playing Russian Roulette with our Constitution and hoping it’s not going to have a bullet in the chamber to trigger a Constitutional Convention. But if Idaho votes for an Article V Convention on Term Limits Idaho just put another bullet in the chamber. (Or better yet, write your own message.)
These are the Representatives who voted in FAVOR:
Chairman Bruce Skaug, Home (208) 332-1178 Statehouse (208) 332-1178
Joe Alfieri Home (208) 699-0021 Statehouse (208) 332-1065
Marco Adam Erickson: Home (208) 241-5665 Statehouse (208) 332-1073
Dan Garner: Home (208) 244-0999 Statehouse (208) 332-1081
Clay Handy: Home (208) 332-1074 Statehouse (208) 332-107
Ted Hill: Home (208) 332-1124 Statehouse (208) 332-1124
Mike Pohanka Home (208) 490-4709 Statehouse (208) 332-1174
John Shirts: Home (208) 550-3190 Bus (208) 550-3190
Don Hall: Home (208) 332-1188 Statehouse (208) 332-1188
Emails:
BSkaug@house.idaho.gov, JAlfieri@house.idaho.gov,
MErickson@house.idaho.gov, DGarner@house.idaho.gov, CHandy@house.idaho.gov, THill@house.idaho.gov,
MPohanka@house.idaho.gov, JShirts@house.idaho.gov,
MESSAGE for Representatives who voted NO on the Art. V Constitutional Amendments Convention on a Balanced Budget earlier this session: Thank you for voting no on the Article V on a Balanced Budget. Please vote NO on HCR23 on a Constitutional Amendments Convention for Term Limits. The Term Limits organization’s argument that they only want to “scare” Congress into passing an amendment is like playing Russian Roulette with our Constitution and hoping it’s not going to have a bullet in the chamber to trigger a Constitutional Convention. But if Idaho votes for an Article V Convention on Term Limits Idaho just put another bullet in the chamber. (Or better yet, write your own message.)
These are the Representatives who voted NO:
Heather Scott: Home (208) 332-1190 Statehouse (208) 332-1190
Barbara Ehardt: Home (208) 332-1189 Statehouse (208) 332-1189
Dale Hawkins: Home (208) 568-1275 Statehouse (208) 332-1070
Clint Hostetler: Home (208) 207-8514 Statehouse (208) 332-1024
John Gannon: Home (208) 343-1608 Bus (208) 433-0629 Statehouse (208) 332-1082
Chris Mathias Home (208) 332-1076 Statehouse (208) 332-1076
Ilana Rubel: Home (208) 866-4776 Statehouse (208) 332-1034
Emails:
HScott@house.idaho.gov. BEhardt@house.idaho.gov, DHawkins@house.idaho.gov, CHostetler@house.idaho.gov, JGannon@house.idaho.gov, CMathias@house.idaho.go, IRubel@house.idaho.gov
Information: The testimony in other states on the Term Limits Article V stresses that the purpose of the resolution was not to have an Article V Convention for Amendments (which is what HCR23 applies to Congress for) but to “scare” Congress into passing Term Limits by having 33 states apply for one. The Constitutional trigger for a convention is 34 states. This is a preposterous argument. It’s like playing Russian Roulette with the gun pointed at our Constitution and hoping it’s not going to have a bullet in the chamber to trigger a Constitutional Convention. But if Idaho votes for an Article V on Term Limits, Idaho just put another bullet in the chamber.
Text of HCR23: https://legislature.idaho.gov/
Article V of the U.S. Constitution:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made before the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Congressional Research
https://www.everycrsreport.
More information: Con Con/Article V
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