Wisconsin Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher announced his retirement from Congress Saturday, days after bucking his party by helping to block a resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
“The Framers intended citizens to serve in Congress for a season and then return to their private lives,” Gallagher said in a statement. “Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old. And so, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for re-election.”
A four-term, 39-year-old member from Green Bay, Gallagher chairs the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. He passed on a Senate run last year after being heavily recruited by Senate Republicans and said at that time that he planned to seek reelection.
