Members of the House of Representatives are eligible to serve an unlimited number of two-year terms, as long as the electorate in their state and district continues to vote them into office.
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Members of the United States House of Representatives serve two year terms.
You are thinking about the House of Representatives. The members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms representing the people of a district. Congressional districts are apportioned to states by population using the United States Census results, provided that each state has at least one congressperson.
The main reason for Senators having longer terms than House members is to provide stability. It also, theoretically, makes Senators less likely to be influenced by outside forces.
It limits the presidency to two four-year terms.
The Great Compromise of 1787 set up the system of each state having two senators and a state's population determining the number of representatives. The compromise came after a large debate at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The debate centered on how many representatives each state should have in the new government's lawmaking branch, the U.S. Congress.