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FILE PHOTO: House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairwoman Nita Lowey speaks during testimony by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a hearing on the State Department's budget request for 2020 in Washington, U.S. March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Nita Lowey, the first woman to chair the powerful House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, said on Thursday she will not seek re-election next year. Lowey, 82, is serving her sixteenth term in the House. She was first elected in 1988, representing a district including suburbs of New York City.
She has been the top Democrat on the appropriations panel, which oversees government spending, since 2013, first as ranking Democrat and as the panel’s chairwoman since January.She had faced her first primary challenge in decades this year, one of a handful of Democratic House committee chairs targeted in next year’s elections by candidates further to the left.
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