Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on House oversight panel
by Robert Tait in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6WXRS)
Virginia representative says he will not seek re-election in Congress, citing return of esophageal cancer
Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives' key oversight committee, has announced he will not run for re-election and resign his committee post, citing a return of the cancer for which he previously been successfully treated.
The Virginia Democrat was elected as the party's ranking member on the high-profile committee last December, after its former chair, the Maryland representative Jaime Raskin, moved on to the judiciary committee.
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