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HASC GOP Member Cook Announces Retirement in 2020

HASC GOP Member Cook Announces Retirement in 2020
Rep. Paul Cook, R-Apple Valley, speaks to an audience filled with veterans, garrison leaders, Soldiers, family members, and honored guests during the 50th Vietnam Commemoration event at the National Training Center, Fort Irwin, Calif., March 19, 2016. (U.S. Army Photo by Cpl. Michelle U. Blesam, Operations Group, National Training Center)

House Armed Services Committee member and retired Marine Rep. Paul Cook (R-Calif.) plans to retire in 2020, becoming the 13th GOP member and sixth HASC member to leave the House after this Congress term ends. The LA Times first reported Sept. 17 that Cook, 76, plans to retire and run for San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. The retired Marine Corps colonel first entered Congress in 2012, and won reelection in the midterm elections with 60 percent of the vote,…

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