FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, record photo, U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., questions Postmaster General Louis DeJoy during a House Oversight and Reform Committee proceeding connected the Postal Service connected Capitol Hill, successful Washington. Lawrence plans to discontinue from Congress astatine the extremity of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to determine against seeking reelection successful 2022, she announced Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (Tom Williams/Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence plans to discontinue from Congress astatine the extremity of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to determine against seeking reelection successful 2022, she announced Tuesday.

“This twelvemonth marks my 30th twelvemonth successful elected nationalist service, and I’ve had the bully luck of serving Michiganders connected the section and nationalist level,” she announced connected Twitter.

“After reflecting connected my travel & having conversations with my family, I’m announcing that I volition not beryllium seeking re-election to Congress,” Lawrence said.

The 67-year-old erstwhile Southfield politician is the lone Black lawmaker representing Michigan successful Congress and the lone Michigan Democrat connected the almighty House Appropriations Committee.

She has been successful the U.S. House since 2015, representing a territory that includes parts of Detroit, Hamtramck, the Grosse Pointe communities, Farmington Hills and Pontiac.

Being astir much for her household was a large information for Lawrence, a grandma whose last-living sister died past month.

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Lawrence's announcement came connected the aforesaid time that Democratic Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois formally announced helium won't question a 16th word successful the U.S. House.

Rush is the 24th House Democrat to denote that they volition not tally for reelection this year. Eleven House Republicans person said they won't question reelection this fall, erstwhile the GOP is looking to triumph power of the chamber.

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