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We’ve Never Seen Congressional Resignations Like This Before
By artappraiser on Tue, 01/30/2018 - 2:57am |By Nathaniel Rakich @ FiveThirtyEight.com, Jan. 29
On Jan. 15, Pat Tiberi became the 12th member of the 115th Congress to resign from office. If that feels like a lot, that’s because it is; it’s the most people who have resigned from Congress through this point in the session in at least 117 years.
Since March 4, 1901 — the first day of the 57th Congress — 615 members of Congress have resigned or been removed from office. FiveThirtyEight canvassed them all, from Hazel Abel to Ryan Zinke, to put the current rash of resignations into historical context. The reasons members of Congress give for stepping aside can tell us a lot about the political era in which they occurred, including our own.
The 115th Congress owes its historic turnover to the confluence of two events, one normal and one abnormal [....]
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-people-are-resigning-from-congress-than-at-any-time-in-recent-history/
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