“Our population has changed so much in the last 4 or 5 years,” the governor said. “We need to get apportioned properly, and people deserve equal representation.” 

“[E]ven if the woman was mainly trying to get away (which is what it looks like to me), she was engaged in an actionable assault on a federal officer, a felony under Section 111 of the federal penal code,” McCarthy wrote in a piece for National Review. 

The 86-year-old longest serving House Democrat will not seek re-election in 2026 and retire after more than 44 years in Congress.