Congressional Reform Survey Results

Change Research tested two congressional reform proposals in our most recent national survey, conducted among 1,858 voters from August 5 to 10, 2025. The following summarizes the results:

• Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all strongly support establishing age limits for members of Congress. Support ranges from 81% for 70 year olds to 88% for 80 year olds. Solid majorities strongly support creating these limits.  

• Almost every voter supports requiring Congress to create basic guidelines that guarantee its members are mentally healthy and able to do their job. Only 3% oppose this idea. Few other proposals have the potential to unite Americans like this one does.

About the Survey

Polling was conducted online from August 5-10, 2025. Using Dynamic Online Sampling to attain a representative sample, Change Research polled 1858 registered voters nationwide. Post-stratification was performed on age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, region, urbanicity and 2024 presidential vote. You can see a full methodology statement here, which complies with the requirements of AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative. Members of the Transparency Initiative disclose all relevant details about our research, with the principle that the public should be able to evaluate and understand research-based findings, in order to instill and restore public confidence in survey results.