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Longtime OR Democratic Congressman Pete DeFazio is retiring.
DeFazio and Ron Kind(D-WI) are the longtime Democratic US House members that never ran for the US Senate.
If DeFazio ran in 1996- No US Senator Gordon Smith.
If Ron Kind ran in 2016 instead of Russ Feingold, Ron Johnson would be a 1 termed.
