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Leading House Dem won’t seek reelection
Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) has announced that she will not seek reelection in 2022. Bustos was head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee last year (currently, she heads the House Democratic Steering Committee). The Democrats were expected to gain seats in 2020, but ended up losing some and barely holding their House majority.
In addition, Bustos, who had won reelection in 2016 by 20 points even though Donald Trump carried her district, won in 2020 by only four points. Her district in Northern Illinois is trending Republican.
Bustos’ explanation to the Huffington Post of her retirement decision included the obligatory “spend more time with my family” theme. Does she fear losing her seat and/or being in the minority come 2023? I don’t know.
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Apr 30, 2021
Democrat Cheri Bustos Announces Retirement From Congress
The Illinois lawmaker will finish out her term, but said she is ready for something new after serving in the House for 10 years.
After 10 years in Congress, Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) announced Friday that she will not run for reelection in 2022.
“Today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection after completing this term,” Bustos said in a video statement first obtained by HuffPost. “It will be a new decade, and I feel it’s time for a new voice.”
It’s not clear what Bustos plans to do next.
In an interview on Friday, Bustos told HuffPost that nothing in particular was driving her decision to go. She said she tends to make big changes every 10 years ― she worked as a reporter and then an editor for about two decades, and then in health care for 10 years ― and felt it was time for another shift.
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Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., uses hand sanitizer at the House Appropriations Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 10. File Photo by Tasos Katopodis/UPI | License Photo
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., (L) talks to reporters about Election Day results in races for the House of Representatives at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on November 3. She was joined on a video call by Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. File Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/UPI | License Photo
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