Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House Select Committee on Competition with China, said Saturday that he was one of only four House Republicans to defy party leadership and vote against impeaching President Joe Biden. Four days after becoming one, he announced that he would not run for re-election. Head of border authority.
Gallagher, 39, a four-term congressman and former Marine Corps intelligence officer, said in a statement that the framers of the U.S. Constitution never intended elected office to be lifelong.
“Electoral politics was never meant to be a profession, and believe me, Congress is no place to grow old. Therefore, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for re-election,” he said in a statement.
Gallagher joined three other House Republicans on Tuesday to vote against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
The initiative failed by one vote, prompting Mr Gallagher to be surrounded by party members on the House floor and urged to reverse the vote.
Gallagher later wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that impeachment would not only fail to resolve the Mexican border issue, but would also “set a dangerous new precedent that could be used against future Republican administrations.” ” he said.
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Gallagher, a member of both the House Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, has spent much of this year serving as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Select Committee. The task force is a bipartisan commission tasked with examining the relationship between the United States and China and developing strategies to help China improve. ability to compete with China;
When Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in January 2023, they established the task force as part of an effort to raise awareness about the issues behind escalating tensions with China.
The tough line on China is one of the few policies to enjoy bipartisan support in the deeply divided U.S. Congress, and Mr. Gallagher has been praised for working smoothly with Democrats on committees.
