- Texas Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez to retire amid bipartisan calls for expulsion following an affair with a former staffer who died by suicide.
- California Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell resigns after multiple sexual assault allegations; had been a gubernatorial frontr
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