{"id":40034,"date":"2025-04-28T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/gerry-connolly-to-step-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:47:58","slug":"gerry-connolly-to-step-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/gerry-connolly-to-step-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on House oversight panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia representative says he will not seek re-election in Congress, citing return of esophageal cancer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/28\/donald-trump-tariffs-china-xi-jinping-immigration-sanctuary-cities-us-politics-live-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gerry Connolly, the top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrat<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/house-of-representatives\">House of Representatives\u2019<\/a> key oversight committee, has announced he will not run for re-election and resign his committee post, citing a return of the cancer for which he previously been successfully treated.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Democrat was elected as the party\u2019s ranking member on the high-profile committee last December, after its former chair, the Maryland representative Jaime Raskin, moved on to the judiciary committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/28\/democrat-gerry-connolly-step-down-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia representative says he will not seek re-election in Congress, citing return of esophageal cancer US politics live \u2013 latest updates Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives\u2019 key oversight committee, has announced he will not run for re-election and resign his committee post, citing a return of the cancer for which &#8230; <a title=\"Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on House oversight panel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/28\/gerry-connolly-to-step-down-as-top-democrat-on-house-oversight-panel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gerry Connolly to step down as top Democrat on House oversight panel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}