
Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), the chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, saud Aug. 28 that he would resign at the end of 2019, three years before his term is scheduled to end. The lawmaker, who was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2005 after serving in Georgia’s House of Representatives and Senate as well as the U.S. House of Representatives, cited mounting health concerns for his reason to leave Capitol Hill. “After much prayer and consultation with my family…