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Tennessee Rep. Mark Green announces retirement from Congress – Tennessee Lookout [1]

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Date: 2024-02-14

U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Clarksville Republican, announced Wednesday he will not seek reelection to Congress this year, giving life to rumors he plans to run for governor in 2026.

Green, who was elected to the 7th District seat in 2018 when then-Congressman Marsha Blackburn ran for U.S. Senate, is chair of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee and led the impeachment hearings of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The House voted Tuesday to impeach Mayorkas by a one-vote margin and in a statement, Green said he feels the impeachment has fulfilled his mission in Congress.

“Our country–and our Congress–is broken beyond most means of repair,” he said. “I have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington, our fight is with Washington. As I have done my entire life, I will continue serving this country–but in a new capacity.”

The Washington Examiner, a conservative newspaper in the nation’s capital, first reported the news after an interview with Green.

“It’s pretty clear that the founders, the framers of the Constitution at least, intended the people’s representatives to serve for a season and then go home,” Green told an Examiner reporter. “We’re not intended to be here to grow old in Congress. So, there’s that constitutional piece that really kind of honestly probably is what pushed me over the edge.”

Prior to his election to Congress, Green served in the state Senate from 2012 to 2018. A physician and graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he was former President Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Army in 2017 before withdrawing amid allegations he made derogatory comments about LGBTQ people, Hispanic- and Muslim-Americans.

Unusual Whales, a market analysis group, reported in January that Green was among a bipartisan group of members of Congress who beat the stock market to achieve large returns from trading. The report, which was based on financial disclosures, showed Green got returns of 122.2% over his 2023 stock trades. After the report’s release, Green issued a public statement saying he has no insight into how trades are made.

Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is running as a Democrat for the 7th District.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

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