Sensenbrenner won’t seek re-election next year
GOP U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who next year will become the longest-serving House member in Wisconsin history, announced today he won’t seek re-election next year. Sensenbrenner, who was elected to the House in 1978, noted in his announcement that he’s done more than 100 town hall meetings each year while in Congress, taken 23,882 votes on the House floor and seen 217 bills he sponsored signed into law by six different presidents. “I think I am leaving this district, our Republican Party, and most important, our country, in a better place than when I began my service,” Sensenbrenner said. The