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Dave Camp, the chair of the House Ways And Means Committee announced Monday that he would be retiring at the end of his term.
Yet another senior Republican is throwing in the towel on Capitol Hill.
In a news release delivered at 5 p.m., Camp said, “Today, I am announcing that I will not seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives. This decision was reached after much consideration and discussion with my family.”
It’s a surprise because as recently as last year he was said to be considering a run for the Senate seat now held by Carl Levin.
April 22nd is the filing deadline and candidates will now be scrambling to try and collect their petition signatures iand deliver them nto the Secretary of State’s office to qualify for the August Primary.
Accolades have rolled in for Camp from the Governor, from the Attorney General, even Democrat Sander Levin, who says it’s a regrettable loss to the institution of Congress, calling Camp a devoted public servant.
When you add the time Camp spent in Congress with the years served by Mike Rogers, John Dingell and Gary Peters, who is running for the Senate, it adds up to over a century of lost seniority.
Add to that the retirement of Senator Carl Levin and Michigan will have a lot less clout in the Capitol after new years.
Camp, who is 60, suffered from non-Hodgkins large B-cell lymphoma in 2012 but was declared cancer free by his doctors by the end of that year.
Agencies/Canadajournal
