{"id":57772,"date":"2018-02-01T04:52:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T04:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=57772"},"modified":"2018-02-01T04:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T04:52:11","slug":"rep-trey-gowdy-to-leave-congress-becoming-latest-high-profile-committee-chairman-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/rep-trey-gowdy-to-leave-congress-becoming-latest-high-profile-committee-chairman-to-retire.html","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Trey Gowdy to leave Congress, becoming latest high-profile committee chairman to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Rep. Trey Gowdy to leave Congress, becoming latest high-profile committee chairman to retire<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced Wednesday that he is retiring from Congress at the end of his term, becoming the latest high-profile committee chairman to opt against re-election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cI will not be filing for re-election to Congress nor seeking any other political or elected office; instead I will be returning to the justice system,\u201d Gowdy said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The former federal prosecutor was elected to Congress in 2010. He quickly gained fame for his role in investigating Obama administration scandals on the Oversight Committee and then as the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The 53-year-old Gowdy, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, has been outspoken about the FBI\u2019s investigations into 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s email practices, as well as the Russia probe involving President Trump and his aides. Most recently, he has been a proponent of publicly releasing the House Intelligence Committee memo on alleged government surveillance abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cWhatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system,\u201d he said. \u201cAs I look back on my career, it is the jobs that both seek and reward fairness that are most rewarding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">During his tenure in Congress, conservatives had unsuccessfully mounted efforts to get Gowdy to run for speaker of the House or majority leader &#8212; efforts he rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Gowdy joins a parade of committee chairs who are leaving at the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">They include: Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas; Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce of California; Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia; Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania; Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas; House Administration Chairman Gregg Harper of Mississippi; House Budget Committee Chairman Diane Black of Tennessee and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cHe will be sorely missed in Congress, and I wish him and his family success in their future endeavors,\u201d National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Steve Stivers said in a statement. \u201cThe NRCC is confident this seat will stay solidly in Republican control in November.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In the House, more than 30 Republicans are retiring, resigning or running for another office as anti-Trump sentiment spreads in swing districts. That\u2019s in comparison to just more than a dozen Democrats leaving the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Republican exodus is the largest number of retirements since the 1994 congressional elections, when the GOP \u2013 aided in part by a slew of Democratic retirements \u2013 took back control of the House during former Democratic President Bill Clinton&#8217;s first term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Democrats need to flip 24 seats to take back the House this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2018\/01\/31\/rep-trey-gowdy-r-s-c-announces-will-not-seek-re-election-in-november.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/rep-trey-gowdy-to-leave-congress-becoming-latest-high-profile-committee-chairman-to-retire.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Trey Gowdy to leave Congress, becoming latest high-profile committee chairman to retire South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced Wednesday that he is retiring from Congress at the end of his term, becoming the latest high-profile committee chairman to opt against re-election. 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