Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA, 15th) announced Tuesday that he will resign from Congress “in the coming weeks.”
Pictured: Rep. Charlie Dent
The congressman had already said that he would not run for reelection this year, but that he would serve out the remainder of his term.
Dent, a former chairman of the Ethics Committee and the current chair of the Appropriations subcommittee on military construction, also co-chairs the moderate Tuesday Group, a coalition of centrist Republicans in Congress.
In his earlier announcement, he expressed his frustration with the increasing polarization in Congress.
Dent is currently serving his seventh term.
