{"id":1036775,"date":"2021-11-20T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036775"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:58:36","slug":"longest-serving-texas-rep-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/longest-serving-texas-rep-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest-Serving Texas Rep. Announces Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flongest-serving-texas-rep-announces-retirement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036775&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the dean of her state\u2019s congressional delegation, announced Saturday that she will not run for re-election in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing more satisfying to an elected official for people of real character and accomplishment to plead for you to run for office one more time,\u201d Johnson said at a press conference held at Kirkwood Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2019\/10\/09\/texas-democrat-eddie-bernice-johnson-says-shell-run-for-one-final-term\/\">said<\/a> that the 117th Congress would be her last. She was first elected to Congress in 1993, and also <a href=\"https:\/\/awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu\/directory\/eddie-bernice-johnson\/\">served<\/a> in the Texas state legislature and the Carter administration. At 85 years old, Johnson is the second-oldest member of the House, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/congress-democrats-majority-jeopardy-aging-members\/\">oldest<\/a> Democrat. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/16\/longtime-democratic-california-rep-jackie-speier-announces-retirement\/\">(RELATED: Longtime Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier Announces Retirement)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have gone back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, but as of January of next year, I will step down, I will retire, and I will recommend who I feel is best to follow me,\u201d she said, adding that she would look for a female candidate to support. Johnson declined to endorse a candidate at her press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was the <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2021\/11\/19\/retire-or-run-again--texas-awaits-news-of-rep--eddie-bernice-johnson-s-political-future?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic\">first<\/a> nurse elected to Congress, and became the first African-American woman to serve as chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology in 2019. She was also the first African-American head of psychiatric nursing at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been loved, and kept close, and kept in touch. I have a loving family that backs me up,\u201d she added, flanked by her extended family, including three great-grandchildren. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a title, it\u2019s a job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to deliver. I thought about the district, and all the needs that it had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson is the sixteenth House Democrat to decline to run for re-election in 2022, and the tenth to retire from elected office entirely. Democrats are expected to hold her south Dallas seat, which she <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson\">won<\/a> by 59 points in 2020. Johnson is also the second committee chair to retire, following Kentucky Rep. John <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/12\/john-yarmuth-retire-before-2022-election\/\">Yarmuth<\/a> of the Banking Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, the dean of her state\u2019s congressional delegation, announced Saturday that she will not run for re-election in 2022.\u201cThere is nothing more satisfying to an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}