Rep. Green announces retirement a day after leading Mayorkas' impeachment
Nashville, Feb. 15 -- Tennessee Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Green on Wednesday announced that he won't run for a fourth term, pointing to the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just the day before as among the reasons it is "time for me to return home."
"Our country - and our Congress - is broken beyond most means of repair," Green said in a statement. "I have come to realize our fight is not here within Washington, our fight is with Washington."
As chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, Green was a driving force behind the Mayorkas impeachment push over border security in a deeply partisan and highly unusual attack on a Cabinet official. His panel conducted a months-long investigation of Mayorkas, his ...
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