"Retirement Wave" Hits House Republicans

Congressional Quarterly:

The announcement Friday by former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., that he will not seek re-election in 2008 capped a week in which three veteran House Republicans in a 24-hour span declared that the current 110th Congress would be their last.

Hastert's announcement -- coupled with similar ones Thursday by Ohio Rep. Deborah Pryce and Mississippi Rep. Charles W. "Chip" Pickering Jr. -- brought to five the number of House Republicans who are not seeking re-election next year, compared with two on the Democratic side.

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