A competition of sorts has broken out to see who can be the most pro-Trump member of Congress.
When Representative Andy Ogles, Republican of Tennessee, filed legislation to try to make President Trump eligible for a third term, he didn’t need Mr. Trump to ask him to do it. Mr. Ogles heard the president muse about extending his tenure in office, and he snapped into action.
“It tweaked my interest,” Mr. Ogles said. “And so then you have to have that thoughtful process of, ‘OK, if someone were to serve a third term, how might you facilitate it?’”
Mr. Ogles’s proposed amendment to the Constitution is highly unlikely to become law. It would require a two-thirds vote of Congress and three-fourths vote of the states. But it is among a flurry of bills that Republicans have submitted to begin the 119th Congress that are designed to flatter, honor or further empower Mr. Trump.
In one of his first acts in office, Representative Addison McDowell, a freshman from North Carolina, submitted a bill that would change the name of Washington Dulles International Airport to Donald J. Trump International Airport. He said he wanted to put Mr. Trump on even standing with another Republican icon, former President Ronald Reagan, who has a D.C. airport named after him.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, filed legislation to expunge the two impeachments of Mr. Trump, an attempt to clear the record of any mention of his alleged offenses and make it as if the impeachments “had never passed the full House of Representatives.”
And just last week, Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, submitted a bill to add Mr. Trump’s likeness to Mount Rushmore, placing him alongside George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.