According to a congressional colleague, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., will leave Congress at the end of this term.
Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said on Wednesday morning on C-Span that the South Carolinian wants to go back home. “God bless him for that,” Fleming said.
The legislator confirmed that Gowdy had told other Republicans of his decision, the Washington Examiner is reporting. Fleming stated that Gowdy “wants to finish his work on the Benghazi special committee. But he loves South Carolina and he loves his family, and he wants to go back and spend the rest of his life there.”
The Examiner reached out to Gowdy’s office for comment and was told that the congressman has not announced anything yet regarding his future plans.
“No, he is not announcing his retirement,” Gowdy spokeswoman Amanda Duvall told the Examiner. “He has not made any announcement on 2016, anything else is incorrect.”
Gowdy has earned a bulldog reputation on the Hill and in the nation for his relentless pursuit of the truth regarding the 2012 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Presidential candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is slated to speak before the House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Gowdy, on Oct. 22.
CNN reports that Gowdy has declined to run for House majority leader. “I’ve never run for any leadership position, and I’m not going to start now,” Gowdy said. “Don’t know how I can be any more definitive.”
“The Benghazi Committee chairman’s comments came after Rep. Mia Love [R-Utah] said Gowdy would jump into the contest for majority leader if asked to do so,” according to CNN.
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