Authors: Joshua Cohan

US House of Representatives(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Edolphus Towns, D-New York, announced Monday that he is not seeking a 16th term in Congress.
Towns is the former chairman of the powerful Oversight and Government Reform committee and he is a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Towns becomes the fifteenth House Democrat to retire at the end of this cycle rather than face re-election. Ten Republicans have also decided not to run again.
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