{"id":15293,"date":"2024-03-23T21:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/rep-mike-gallagher-to-resign-early\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T21:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:51:08","slug":"rep-mike-gallagher-to-resign-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/rep-mike-gallagher-to-resign-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Mike Gallagher to Resign Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced that he will be resigning from Congress early.<\/p>\n<p>Gallagher said in a statement, \u201cAfter conversations with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position as a member of the House of Representatives for Wisconsin\u2019s Eight Congressional District effective April 19, 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve worked closely with House Republican leadership on this timeline and look forward to seeing Speaker Johnson appoint a new chair to carry out the important mission of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d he continued. \u201cMy office will continue to operate and provide constituent services to the Eight District for the remainder of the term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour terms serving Northeast Wisconsin in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime and strengthened my conviction that America is the greatest country in the history of the world. I will forever be proud of the work I did on the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, chairing the Cyberspace Solarium COmmission, and chairing the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party. It has truely been an honor to servce in the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) responded to the announcement, saying it has been an \u201chonor\u201d to serve alongside Gallagher.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over the past\u00a0seven\u00a0years, Mike Gallagher has faithfully served Wisconsin\u2019s 8th\u00a0District and all of the American people by his extraordinary work in the House, and by courageously exposing the threat Beijing poses to the U.S., especially as Chairman of the Select Committee on the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cp99fu0bUq\">https:\/\/t.co\/cp99fu0bUq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerJohnson\/status\/1771262114583155084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When Gallagher leaves, the Republicans will only be able to afford one defecting vote.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as GOP Rep. Ken Buck (CO) resigned on March 22.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cServing the people of Colorado\u2019s 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives these past 9 years has been an honor and a privilege. Thank you! \u2013 Ken Buck,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Serving the people of Colorado\u2019s 4th District in the U.S. House of Representatives these past 9 years has been an honor and a privilege. Thank you! \u2013 Ken Buck <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kpCvKqsRUI\">pic.twitter.com\/kpCvKqsRUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepKenBuck\/status\/1771279073433506277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/rep-mike-gallagher-to-resign-early\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced that he will be resigning from Congress early. Gallagher said in a statement, \u201cAfter conversations with my family, I have made the decision to resign my position as a member of the House of Representatives for Wisconsin\u2019s Eight Congressional District effective April 19, 2024.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve worked closely with House Republican [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}