Tauzin, Dunn Announce Retirements
February 6, 2004 - Representative Billy Tauzin (R-La.)
Feb. 3 announced he will not seek re-election in November
and that he will step down as chairman of the House Energy
and Commerce Committee, effective Feb. 16. Rep. Tauzin did
not rule out retiring from the House entirely prior to the
end of the 108th Congress. A 12-term congressman, Rep. Tauzin
has chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee, which has authorizing
authority over most health care and biomedical research programs,
since 2001. Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) is reportedly the most
likely successor to the chairman's position.
Also this week, Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.) announced she
would not seek re-election to the House. First elected to
Congress in 1992, Rep. Dunn is a senior member of the House
Ways and Means Committee and previously was a member of the
House Republican Leadership.
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