GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling to retire after end of current term

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Hill

House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of his term, according to the Dallas Morning News.

"Today I am announcing that I will not seek reelection to the U.S. Congress in 2018. Although service in Congress remains the greatest privilege of my life, I never intended to make it a lifetime commitment, and I have already stayed far longer than I had originally planned," Hensarling said.

Hensarling, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will be forced to step down after three terms leading the panel due to GOP rules.

Talk of Hensarling's possible retirement has started to pick up.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/finance/358040-gop-rep-jeb-hensarling-to-retire-after-end-of-current-term-report

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Free dumb caucus?

Free dumb knows what they dont like, and they dont like it when a brown person gets assistance from the government and the entire caucus exists to eliminate that from ever happening.

That is pretty much all they care about.

Actually, this makes Paul Ryan their founder, even though he isnt. His fantasy is destroying minorities, old people, poor people.

He literally admits to DREAMING about it.

[Snotcicles]

2. All Republicans. It's like watching a chop shop abandon a stripped down stolen car in an alley. nt

[Iliyah]

3. Jumping from a sinking ship.

[mpcamb]

15. Get out before there are any more indictments...

[onetexan]

4. Good riddance. Next Dem candidate to fill the seat please

we need to take back the House in 2018.

Edited to add link to Democratic candidate Dan Wood for the seat: https://www.crowdpac.com/campaigns/192921/dan-wood

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

8. The Republicans have dominated TX-5 for twenty years

There are competitive races in Texas, this isn't one of them.

[onetexan]

13. doesn't matter, there hasn't been a Dem governor

since Ann Richards for over 20 years. Does that mean we just give up? No, we fight harder.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

14. How about just fighting smarter?

Look at the demographics of the district, this one is hopeless.

No more Ossoff moon shots.

We need to build a strong organization everywhere and we need to run credible candidates everywhere, but we also need to use resources responsibly. We let some of the weakest elected Republicans in the country run virtually unopposed while wild eyed radicals with a point to prove decide to waste millions on districts in the suburban and rural south.

My district, CA-48 voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, it also voted to re-elect Republican Congressvagrant Dana Rohrabacher. How the hell did that happen? Look at the flakes we have run against him.

[onetexan]

16. i wouldn't be so quick to diss a district as hopeless

One Dem state House candidate was able to flip 3 red precincts at last election when she lost to the incumbent GOP guy. This time around she's got a good chance of flipping several more. If she does she will win the seat.
The way i see it, it took the Repugs 30 years to flip the red southern states (remember Southern Strategy & Bible Belt)? It may take us just as long if not longer to flip red districts.
“Better to try and fail, than to never have the experience”.

[Thor_MN]

5. Like kicking over a rotted stump and watching the creepy crawlers skitter away...

Maybe 45 is draining the swamp, but not in the way he thought.

[turbinetree]

6. Oh Yippie, this cretin not only voted to kill me and everyone 55+ times on

health care, he now gets health care benefits and a retirement, while defined benefits are gone, or nearly gone, but he gets his from the taxpayers (he gets defined benefits) and then he says that he didn't intend to make it a lifetime career, ---------------well that was another another outright lie, you should have left 8 years ago , making over $220,000 a year as a chairman, just figuring out how to screw people over------------don't let the door hit you in the ass..........................




Defined benefits:

What is a 401k Retirement Plan? A Quick Overview. Employer-sponsored retirement plans are generally grouped into two major categories: defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC). In a DB plan, the employer (taxpayers since he was employed by voters) promises to pay a defined amount to retirees who meet certain eligibility criteria.

[CountAllVotes]

7. Rats leaving sinking ship

[jmowreader]

9. Hensarling is one of the worst pricks in Congress, so his departure will be no loss

[rurallib]

11. was going to post much the same

one of the biggest a-holes in congress.

But I bet there is another one like him in his district though.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Wow. Horror movie over for them, head for the exits. nt

[PDittie]

12. He'll be replaced by

someone even worse.