{"id":761561,"date":"2026-07-14T02:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761561\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:49:15","slug":"vote-should-there-be-a-mandatory-retirement-age-for-members-of-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761561\/","title":{"rendered":"VOTE: Should there be a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should there be a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress? Vote in the poll above or <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/vote-should-there-be-a-mandatory-retirement-age-for-members-of-congress-question-of-the-day-senator-mitch-mcconnell-health-lindsey-graham-death-senate-lawmakers-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sen. Mitch McConnell, absent from public view for a month, has <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/statement-from-sen-mitch-mcconnell-regarding-health-announces-retirement#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released a health update and photo<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>His condition, along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/us-senator-lindsey-graham-of-south-carolina-dies-at-71-washington-lawmaker-illness-republican-july-12-2026#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">death of 71-year-old Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a>, is renewing scrutiny over the age and health of members of Congress. The average age of the current U.S. Senate is just under 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Should there be a mandatory retirement age for members of Congress? Vote in the poll above or click&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-761561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}