The Latest Breaking News from Ben Cardin

On Sept. 13, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney (R) became the sixth U.S. Senator to announce they would not run for re-election in 2024. 

Welcome to the Thursday, August 17, 2023, Brew. 

As of Aug. 15, 18 members of Congress—five Senators and 13 Representatives—have announced they will not seek re-election in 2024.

U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin said Friday he will not run next year for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by the retirement of Democrat Ben Cardin.

Raskin gave himself until July to announce his plans. He was weighing a reelection campaign against a run for the U.S. Senate. He went into remission for cancer in April.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, a congressman from the suburbs of the nation’s capital, has announced he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat that is opening with the retirement of Sen. Ben Cardin

In the 1980s, Ben Cardin and I went to Congress from very different places, both politically and geographically. I was a young Republican elected in 1980 from a suburban Los Angeles district as Ronald Reagan swept into the White House. Six years later, Ben was elected as a Baltimore Democrat…

The number of senators not running for re-election in 2024 is tied with the number who had announced they would not run at this point in the 2022 cycle, and higher than the numbers for 2020 and 2018. On the House side, the number of members not running is lower…

Raskin has given himself until July 4th to announce his plans. He's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate after going into remission following intensive cancer treatment.

Members of US Congress say Wagner’s revolt has exposed Putin’s rule as more fragile than previously thought.

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