Tag: retirements

Republicans keep deciding to quit Congress: Trouble for the GOP?

March 9, 2021

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt’s announcement that he is leaving Congress in 2022 is the fifth Republican to quit in what is considered a crucial mid-term election.

Two more Republicans abandoning sinking GOP ship

September 5, 2019

The day started with one Republican congressman from Texas announcing he would retire and ended with another, a long-serving former committee chairman from Wisconsin, saying

Ex-Congress members keep leftover cash

October 15, 2015

No matter how they exited — a loss, a resignation, a retirement — former members of Congress can pretty much do whatever they want with