Mark Green: “I was encouraged to hear in your testimony that you want to restore Congress's pivotal role in foreign policy process.”

These weren't in the design specs, and they got placed in there without telling anybody.

It is with a heavy heart that I announce my retirement from Congress. Recently, I was offered an opportunity in the private sector that was too exciting to pass up.

It’s with a heavy heart that I say farewell.

Congress is broken, and it was time for me to return home.