{"id":2210342,"date":"2024-04-01T05:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-do-congressional-retirements-compare-to-recent-congresses\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T05:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T09:22:38","slug":"how-do-congressional-retirements-compare-to-recent-congresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-do-congressional-retirements-compare-to-recent-congresses\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the trend in congressional retirements compared to past Congresses?"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhow-do-congressional-retirements-compare-to-recent-congresses%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=2210342&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--><p>The 118th\u2062 Congress is experiencing a notable trend of House members choosing not \u2063to seek reelection. \u200cWhile significant numbers of incumbents are opting out of \u200drunning\u200c again, along with\u2064 unexpected retirements like that of\u2063 former Rep. Ken Buck, the chaos within the \u2064Congress persists.\u200c The vacancies due to various reasons \u200clike death, resignation, or expulsion are shaping \u200cthe dynamics of this Congress compared \u2062to past ones.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 118th <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Congress\">Congress<\/a> has seen a cavalcade of members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House\">House<\/a> of Representatives announce they will not seek another term, and historically it is a significant number of exits.<\/p>\n<p>With the significant number of incumbents not running for reelection and the sudden retirements of several Republicans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2916604\/ken-buck-departing-dysfunctional-house-early-gop-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"including\">including<\/a> former Rep. Ken Buck, the chaos of the 118th Congress appears to be on track to continue a recent trend of incumbents not seeking another term in the House of Representatives \u2014 but it is not at top of the list in terms of early resignations in the House for recent Congresses.<\/p>\n<p>So far in the 118th Congress, there are eight vacancies in the House of Representatives through death, resignation, or expulsion, with another on the way when Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) resigns from his seat next month.<\/p>\n<p>Dating back to the 99th Congress, from 1985-87, the current Congress is the middle of the pack in terms of the <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/Institution\/Vacancies-Successors\/Vacancies-Successors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"number\">number<\/a> of vacancies 15th months in. The Congress with the most vacancies in the House of Representatives at some point through that period is held by the 117th Congress, from 2021-23, with 12 vacancies created via either death or resignation.<\/p>\n<p>When narrowed down to only resignations, the 118th Congress has had six members quit early so far \u2014 two Democrats and four Republicans \u2014 with Gallagher slated to be the seventh one on April 19. This puts the 118th Congress near the top in terms of resignations at this point in mid-presidential term Congresses. The most resignations at this point since the 99th Congress was seven, during the 112th Congress, from 2011-13. <\/p>\n<p>Congresses beginning the same year as a presidential term typically see a higher number of resignations in the House of Representatives, as many resign to take jobs in a new administration or the second term of a presidential administration. Among those Congresses, the most resignations 15 months in dating back to the 99th Congress goes to the 115th Congress, from 2017-19, \u2014 with 10 \u2014 at the beginning of President Donald Trump\u2019s term.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at incumbents who have announced they will not seek another term, <a href=\"https:\/\/pressgallery.house.gov\/member-data\/casualty-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"44\">43<\/a> current members of Congress have said they will not seek an additional term in November or are running for a different office. <\/p>\n<p>In the past decade, it ranks near the top of recent Congresses with only the 115th Congress, when 52 members of the House did not seek reelection, and the 117th Congress, when 49 members of the House did not seek reelection, ranking higher.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With this week\u2019s announcement that Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH) would not seek another term in November, the figure for the 118th Congress still has time to beat recent highs set by the 115th and 117th Congresses.<\/p>\n<p>While the 118th Congress is not record-setting with its number of retirements yet, frustrations from a chaotic 15 months in the House of Representatives have left some of the departing members disgruntled. On his way out of the House, Buck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/2918067\/ken-buck-leaves-house-blasting-2024-worst-year-serve-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"told\">told<\/a> CNN the current House was the \u201cworst year of the nine years and three months that I\u2019ve been in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 118th Congress is witnessing a wave of House members opting out of reelection, marking a historically high number of departures. The notable absence of incumbents seeking reelection, along with surprise retirements like that of former Rep. Ken Buck, has stirred up significant disruption, especially among retiring Republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2210343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24067098073871-2-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24067098073871-2-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210342","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\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2210343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}