THE NOTE: President Biden is touting it as the biggest investment in the nation's infrastructure in 70 years -- 'real stuff,' but his party needs voters to feel those realities inside of a year.
"Today, I am announcing that I will not be a candidate for re-election to Congress in 2022," said Speier in a tweet."It's time for me to come home. It's time for me to be more than a weekend wife, mother, and friend."Rep. Jackie Speier speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Sept. 16, 2020.
Her announcement comes after Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is the Senate's most senior member,While Speier and Leahy's constituents are unlikely to send GOP lawmakers to serve in their places, the growing number of retirements does call attention to narrow margins in both chambers heading into the high-stakes midterm elections.
What's less certain is how the host of Republican leaders, who range widely in their kinship with former President Donald Trump, might meander off-script from criticizing rising gas prices and instead embrace the culturally polarizing, Trump-adjacent talking points surrounding critical race theory, school choice and mask mandates thatRoss D.
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