Republican China committee chairman Gallagher retiring from US Congress

U.S. Representative Mike Gallagher, who chairs the House select committee on competition with China, said on Saturday he will not run for re-election,
four days after he was one of only four House Republicans to buck party leadership and vote against impeaching President Joe Biden’s top border official.
Gallagher, 39, a four-term House member and former Marine Corps intelligence officer, issued a statement noting that the authors of the U.S. Constitution had not intended elective office to be for a lifetime.
“Electoral politics was never supposed to be a career and, trust me, Congress is no place to grow old. And so, with a heavy heart, I have decided not to run for re-election,” he said in the statement.
Gallagher on Tuesday joined three other Republican House members in voting against impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. As the effort failed by one vote, Gallagher was surrounded on the House floor by members of his party urging him to flip his vote.