{"id":2176477,"date":"2024-02-14T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-green-wont-run-for-reelection-to-house-in-latest-high-profile-retirement\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T22:35:51","slug":"mark-green-wont-run-for-reelection-to-house-in-latest-high-profile-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-green-wont-run-for-reelection-to-house-in-latest-high-profile-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Green, a high-profile figure, has decided not to seek reelection to the House"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmark-green-wont-run-for-reelection-to-house-in-latest-high-profile-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=2176477&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--><h2>House Homeland \u2064Security Committee Chairman \u2062Mark Green (R-TN) Announces Retirement<\/h2>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-introduces-bipartisan-measure-to-declassify-ufo-records\/\" title=\"Schumer proposes bipartisan bill to declassify UFO files.\">recent\u200c interview<\/a> with the Washington Examiner,\u2064 House Homeland Security Committee Chairman \u2064Mark Green (R-TN) \u200brevealed that he \u2064will not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-dem-senate-candidate-announces-support-for-medicare-for-all\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Dem Senate Candidate Announces Support for Medicare for All\">seek reelection<\/a> next year. This decision adds him to the growing list of House Republicans retiring\u2063 from Congress, as the GOP \u2062fights to maintain its slim majority in the upcoming \u200celections.<\/p>\n<p>Green explained\u2064 that his choice to retire came after careful consideration. As a three-term incumbent, he believes he has achieved the goals he set out to accomplish \u200cwhen he first campaigned for office. Reflecting on the \u2063intentions of the Constitution&#8217;s framers, Green \u2063emphasized that they envisioned representatives serving for a \u200blimited time before \u2062returning to their\u200d communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s\u200c pretty clear\u2063 that the founders, the framers of the Constitution at least, intended the people\u2019s representatives to \u2063serve\u2063 for a season and then go home,\u201d Green stated. \u201cWe\u2019re\u200c not intended\u200b to be here to grow old in Congress. So, there\u2019s that constitutional piece that really kind of honestly probably is what pushed me over the edge.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Green&#8217;s retirement follows the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-statehood-bill-gets-house-oversight-committee-hearing\/\" title=\"DC Statehood Bill Gets House Oversight Committee Hearing\">historic vote<\/a> to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a vote led by the Homeland Security Committee, which\u2064 Green chairs.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay tuned for\u200d updates on this developing story.<\/h3>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What factors influenced Chairman Green&#8217;s decision to retire after three\u200c terms as a representative?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2063 House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green \u2062(R-TN) has announced his\u2062 retirement from Congress. In\u2064 an interview with the Washington Examiner, Green revealed \u2063that he \u2064will not \u200bseek \u2064reelection next year, \u200bjoining the growing list of House Republicans retiring \u200das the GOP fights\u200d to maintain its slim majority in the upcoming\u200d elections.<\/p>\n<p>Green \u200dstated that\u200d his decision\u200c to retire\u2062 came after careful consideration. As a three-term incumbent, he\u200c believes that he has achieved\u2063 the goals he set\u2062 out to accomplish when he \u2062first campaigned for office. Reflecting on the intentions\u200d of \u200bthe\u200d Constitution&#8217;s\u200c framers, \u2062Green emphasized that they \u200cenvisioned representatives \u2064serving\u200b for a limited time before returning to their communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s pretty clear that the founders, the framers of the Constitution at least, intended the people\u2019s\u200b representatives to serve for \u2063a season and then go\u200d home,&#8221; Green stated. &#8220;We\u2019re \u2062not intended to be\u2062 here to grow old in \u2063Congress. \u200cSo, there\u2019s that \u2063constitutional piece that really \u2063kind of honestly probably is \u200dwhat pushed me over the edge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Green&#8217;s retirement comes shortly after\u200d the \u200dhistoric vote \u200bto impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a vote that was led by the\u2063 Homeland Security Committee, which Green chairs.<\/p>\n<p>As this story develops, stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Homeland Security Committee Mark Green (R-TN) announced he won&#8217;t seek reelection, joining other House Republicans retiring as the GOP aims to maintain their narrow majority. Green revealed in an interview with the Washington Examiner that the decision was made after careful consideration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176477","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176477\/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=2176477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}