{"id":149838,"date":"2025-07-23T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149838"},"modified":"2025-07-23T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:59:34","slug":"tennessee-republican-resigns-from-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=149838","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tennessee Republican resigns from House&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5412871-tennessee-republican-mark-green-resigns-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a>: &#8220;Rep.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/mark-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Green&nbsp;<\/a>(R-Tenn.) has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resigned from the<\/a>&nbsp;House, further shrinking the GOP\u2019s narrow majority in the chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Green\u2019s departure was noted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/FloorSummary?date=07\/21\/2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the House floor<\/a>\u00a0Monday, with the members of the House announced as going down from 432 to 431. The Tennessee Republican, who has served as head of the House Homeland Security Committee, has previously said he had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/5341132-mark-green-resign-house\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a post-Congress<\/a>\u00a0job ahead of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s with a heavy heart that I say farewell. To my constituents across Tennessee\u2019s 7th District\u2014thank you. The trust you put in me is humbling. I will look back fondly on my years of serving as your voice in Washington,\u201d Green, who started in the House in 2019, wrote in a post on the social&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMarkGreen\/status\/1941126588982342109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">platform X earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There are now 219 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the lower chamber, just a seven-seat difference as tensions rise over the 2026 midterms in which Democrats hope to take back the majority.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: &#8220;Rep.&nbsp;Mark Green&nbsp;(R-Tenn.) has&nbsp;resigned from the&nbsp;House, further shrinking the GOP\u2019s narrow majority in the chamber. Green\u2019s departure was noted\u00a0on the House floor\u00a0Monday, with the members of the House announced as going down from 432 to 431. The Tennessee Republican, who has served as head of the House Homeland Security Committee, has previously said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149839,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149838\/revisions\/149839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}