Hutchison to Retire from Senate
Politico reports that Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) will not run for reelection to the Senate in 2012.
Senator Hutchison is a strong supporter of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the human spaceflight program. She played a critical role in writing and passing the 2010 NASA authorization act. Among other things, she is credited with convincing her Senate Republican colleagues to allow the bill to come to the Senate floor. The bill passed by unanimous consent.
In a statement quoted by Politico, she says that she intended to leave the Senate “long before now.” In fact, she ran for Governor of Texas last year, but was defeated in the primary by the incumbent Governor Rick Perry. Known simply as “KBH” in the Senate, the 67-year old Senator is in her third term.
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