Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) announced yesterday he will retire from the Senate next year at the end of his term, after working in the Senate and on the Pentagon-oversight panel since 1979. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) follows Levin in seniority on the SASC’s Democratic roster and could assume the committee chairmanship in two years. “I have decided not to run for re-election in 2014,” Levin said in a statement issued late yesterday, in which he said…
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