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   From: yourdime@outlook.com   
      
   WASHINGTON — Eleven are running for the Senate. Five for state or local   
   office. One for president of the United States. Another is resigning to   
   become a university president. And more and more say they are hanging up   
   their hats in public office altogether.   
      
   More than three dozen members of Congress have announced they will not   
   seek reelection next year, some to pursue other offices and many others   
   simply to get out of Washington. Twelve have announced their plans just   
   this month.   
      
   The wave of lawmakers across chambers and parties announcing they intend   
   to leave Congress comes at a time of breathtaking dysfunction on Capitol   
   Hill, primarily instigated by House Republicans. The House GOP majority   
   spent the past few months deposing its leader, waging a weekslong internal   
   war to select a new speaker and struggling to keep federal funding   
   flowing. Right-wing members have rejected any spending legislation that   
   could become law and railed against their new leader for turning to   
   Democrats, as his predecessor did, to avert a government shutdown.   
      
   https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/members-of-   
   congress-head-for-the-exits-many-citing-dysfunction/   
      
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