{"id":1222127,"date":"2022-01-18T13:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1222127"},"modified":"2022-01-18T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:53:11","slug":"11-term-democratic-rep-announces-retirement-ahead-of-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/11-term-democratic-rep-announces-retirement-ahead-of-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"11-Term Democratic Rep Announces Retirement Ahead Of Midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2F11-term-democratic-rep-announces-retirement-ahead-of-midterms%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=1222127&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<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Eleven-term Democratic Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Taking office in 2001, Langevin currently <a href=\"https:\/\/langevin.house.gov\/about\/committees-and-caucuses\">serves<\/a> on the House Armed Services Committee, where he chairs the subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems and the House Homeland Security Committee. Before his election to Congress, Langevin served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives and as the Secretary of State of Rhode Island. He was the first quadriplegic to be elected to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been the privilege of a lifetime to represent you as a state representative, as Secretary of State, and as your congressman,\u201d Langevin said in a video posted to his YouTube channel. \u201cWe\u2019ve been in this fight together, just like we always have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cI have not come to this decision lightly, but it is time for me to chart a new course, which will allow me to stay closer to home and spend more time with my family and friends,\u201d he added in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/story\/opinion\/columns\/2022\/01\/18\/jim-langevin-ri-house-representitive-wont-seek-reelection\/6565633001\/\">op-ed<\/a> in The Providence Journal.<\/p>\n<p>Langevin is the <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\">40th<\/a> member of Congress to decline to run for reelection this cycle, and the 27th <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/03\/illinois-rep-bobby-rush-retires-illinois\/\">Democrat<\/a>. His seat, Rhode Island\u2019s Second District, is unlikely to change hands. Langevin <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Jim_Langevin\">won<\/a> reelection by 17 points in 2020, and Democrats could opt to shore it up during redistricting. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/10\/democrat-ed-perlmutter-announces-retirement\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Democratic Rep. Ed Perlmutter Announces Retirement)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A more moderate member of the Democratic caucus, Langevin <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/democrats-congress-jack-reed-hearings-frenzied-afghanistan-exit-nancy-pelosi\/\">opposed<\/a> the full withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. A <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/345231-anti-abortion-democrats-fading-from-the-scene\">former<\/a> member of the Congressional Pr0-Life Caucus, he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2016\/10\/29\/these-democrats-agree-with-donald-trump-on-late-term-abortion\/\">voted<\/a> for anti-abortion legislation as recently as 2015, but in 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/henry-cuellar-one-democrat-against-womens-health-protection-act-abortion\/\">supported<\/a> a bill that would legalize abortion at any point in a woman\u2019s pregnancy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven-term Democratic Rhode Island Rep. Jim Langevin announced Tuesday that he will not run for reelection in 2022.Taking office in 2001, Langevin currently serves on the House Armed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1222127","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\/1222127","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222127\/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=1222127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}