Senate Armed Services Leader Levin Won’t Seek Re-Election
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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan said he won’t seek a seventh term, becoming the fourth Senate Democrat to announce plans to retire after 2014.
Levin, 78, said yesterday in a statement that he wants to spend his last two years in Congress “without the distraction of campaigning for re-election.” He said he will work to improve military readiness and combat “the use of secret money to fund political campaigns.”