Mark Green: “It just makes it much easier for us to write a bigger check knowing that you are looking for efficiencies in the system.”

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.

Our supply chain for food would be disrupted. Think of empty shelves on grocery stores, think of manufacturing grinding to a halt.

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.