Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Feb. 26, 2024
Last fall's House speaker crisis has not caused a significant increase in members to announce their departures compared to the previous election cycle, according to LegiStorm data.
So far, 48 representatives have voluntarily left the 118th Congress or announced that they are not running for reelection to the House. Of those, five members (10% of those 48) resigned before the term's end. Another 17 (35%) are running for Senate or another office, and the remaining 26 are retiring (54%).
Those numbers are similar to this point in the 117th Congress: By Feb. 26, 2022, 47 representatives had resigned or announced their plans to leave. Eight members (17%) had resigned from the 117th Congress at that time. 14 more (30%) had announced their plans to run for other office, and 25 (53%) had announced retirement plans. Another 14 representatives announced their plans to leave Congress after Feb. 26.
Some people and organizations who "caught our eye" last week:
