After nearly 30 years in Congress, Illinois Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) won’t seek another term in the House, he told local media Monday.
Rep. Rush, who was elected to serve Illinois’s 1st congressional district in 1992, won’t run for reelection in the 2022 midterms, he told the Chicago Sun-Times in an interview published Monday. Rush, 75, chairs the energy subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
As of early Wednesday, Rush’s office had yet to release an official statement on his retirement.
During his tenure as head of the House’s energy panel, Rush in March co-sponsored a bill alongside Reps. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) that would have designated nuclear power a clean energy source alongside renewables like wind and solar power.
Although the measure had yet to hear debate in the House on Wednesday, echoes of that legislation could be heard in the Joe Biden administration’s trillion-dollar infrastructure package made law in November, which included roughly $6 billion in tax credits aimed at propping up nuclear power.
