Nebraska Republican Johanns, former ag secretary, says he won’t seek 2nd term in US Senate

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Washington Post:

U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns of Nebraska announced Monday that he will not seek re-election in 2014, saying he wants a “quieter time” to focus on his family following a busy political career that included stints as governor and President George W. Bush’s agriculture secretary.

 

The Nebraska Republican announced that he was retiring from the Senate after one term. He said he and his wife, Stephanie, had decided that the time has come “to close this chapter of our lives.”

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Senate retirements mount quickly, could reach 40-year high

 

 

Posted by Aaron Blake on February 19, 2013 at 1:30 pm

 

Less than two months into the 2014 election cycle, six senators have already announced their retirement, continuing a trend of increasing retirements in the greatest deliberative body in the world.

In fact, the retirement announcements of Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) on Friday and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.) on Monday have put the Senate on track for more retirements than at any point in the last four decades.

 

Despite having just begun the 2014 cycle, we have already seen more Senate retirements than we did in all of 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2008.

The most likely additional retirees would seem to be Sens.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/02/19/senate-retirements-mount-quickly-could-reach-40-year-high/