Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers is retiring.  When she leaves office early next year, it will wrap a two decade career in congress for the Republican. And for the 5th District of Washington State, that longevity is par for the course. 

Only four representatives have held the seat since World War II. This kind of open spot doesn’t come around all that often. And, plenty of Eastern Washington politicians are hungry for McMorris Rodgers’s soon-to-be-vacant seat.

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