Rep. Bill Flores becomes 5th Texas GOP House member to retire – Washington Examiner, Washingtonexaminer.com

Republican Texas Rep. Bill Flores announced that he will not seek another term in the House of Representatives. Flores, 65, broke the news on Wednesday morning.           

Flores, who’s in his fifth term, was elected to Congress in 2010 after he defeated 20 – year Democrat incumbent Chet Edwards. He currently sits on the House Energy & Commerce Committee and is the House Republican Leader’s designee to the House Budget Committee.

“When I originally announced that I was running for Congress in 2009, I was firm in my commitment that I would run for six or fewer terms. After much prayer over the past few days and following conversations with my wife, Gina, during that time, I have decided that my current term will be my last, “Flores’ statement reads.

It continued, “Our family evolved substantially during that period as Gina lost her father, we picked up a daughter-in-law, added four awesome grandkids and watched my Mom and Dad move further along their senior years. job as a Representative has made it difficult to spend as much time with Gina and the rest of my family as I would like. “

He is now thefifth Texas GOP congressman to announce their retirementin recent weeks. The others are Reps. Kenny Marchant, Pete Olson, Will Hurd, and K. Michael Conaway. The GOP has had 11 House members say they will not seek reelection in 2020, while three House Democrats have made the same decision.

Flores and his wife Gina live in Bryan, Texas and have been married for over four decades. They have two sons and four grandchildren. Prior to his time in Congress,Fores was an energy executiveand a Texas Certified Public Accountant (CPA).