Neugebauer won’t seek re-election
September 18, 2015 |06:11 AM
Rep. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, the vice chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and the chairman of the House Financial Services Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, announced Thursday that he will not seek re-election in 2016.
Neugebauer, who represents a large swath of west Texas, including Lubbock, was elected to Congress in a special election runoff in the spring of 2003 after then-House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest, R-Texas, announced his retirement.
In that race, Neugebauer defeated by 587 votes now-House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, who was then the chairman of the Texas Board of Public Accountancy.
In 2004, Neugebauer defeated then-House Agriculture Committee ranking member Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, whose district had been dismantled in the 2003 Texas redistricting, and has won easier elections since then.
“While I am announcing that I will not seek re-election, I am not walking away from the important work that lies ahead,” Neugebauer said in a news release.
“There are still 15 months left in this Congress, and I am committed to work tirelessly on your behalf until the final gavel ends this Congress in January 2017 and another individual takes that special oath soon after.”
