Posted on 06/10/2025 7:37:11 AM PDT by Twotone
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green, R-Tenn., announced Monday he will resign from the lower chamber once it votes on the reconciliation package again to take a job in the private sector.
Green, who was first elected to the chamber in 2018, has been serving in the lead post on the Homeland Security committee since 2023. He helped orchestrate the impeachment of former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in 2024.
The chairman, who previously expected to resign from Congress last year, did not state who he supported to replace him. He also did not state what the private sector job would be.
"It was the honor of a lifetime to represent the people of Tennessee in Congress," Green said in a statement. "They asked me to deliver on the conservative values and principles we all hold dear, and I did my level best to do so. Along the way, we passed historic tax cuts, worked with President [Donald] Trump to secure the border, and defended innocent life."
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My bet is the “private sector job” is a bribe laundered as “book deal.”
THAT IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY!!!!!
THAT IS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT STORY!!!!!
MAYBE IF MEN’S PANTS HAD LACES INSTEAD OF ZIPPERS-———
Oops, you’re right. I can’t keep these guy straight.
Mod please delete.
frequent flyer on lolita express ?
Is this a safe seat? It’s not like we have a huge majority.
What an ass. He just won his seat and apparently was lying to his constituents when he was campaigning.
It’s safe-ish (R+8 or so) but not nearly as safe as it was as of 2020.
The district had to have its Republican strength diluted because during redistricting the TN legislature — very smartly — dismembered the old 5th district and put Jim Cooper (D) out of a job by making that district much more R-friendly. So now the GOP holds all 3 House districts which touch on the Nashville area.
Didn’t this happen before the 2018 elections as well? The GOP had the Presidency, Senate, and House, and suddenly GOP House members started resigning before their terms were complete. The resignations required the GOP to scramble to find candidates and funding for those vacant seats. That also reduced our majority and made passing Trump-supported bills before the mid-terms even harder.
Or am I remembering things incorrectly?
It’s safe. A little watered down but no problem.
TN 7th District. He’s my Representative.
He wanted to retire his seat in 2021 but Trump persuaded him to stay for 2022 and 2024.
Read above.
He’s a good man.
He said in 2017 he only wanted to serve three terms.
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