Longtime Michigan Democratic Rep. Sander Levin announced Saturday that he will not seek re-election in 2018.
Levin said he will join the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
„I hope to help renew public trust in public institutions, which is all the more important given the perils of the Trump presidency,“ he said.
Levin has been a member of the House Ways and Means Committee since 1987, according to his biography. He was named the acting chairman in March 2010 after New York Rep. Charlie Rangel stepped aside amid an ethics investigation. Levin served as the ranking member of the committee from 2011-2016 and is currently the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Health.
He has been a sharp critic of the recently passed House tax overhaul bill. During an early November markup of the bill, Levin lambasted Ways and Means Committee Republicans for not briefing Democrats on provisions of the legislation.
„Are you people essentially authoritarians?“ Levin asked. „You make a mockery out of this committee. A mockery, and you know it.“
Levin is a native of Detroit and the brother of former Democratic Sen. Carl Levin, who retired from the Senate in January 2015 after serving 36 years.
