APNewsBreak: Rockefeller won't seek re-election

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3. Good move for him, but between him and Lautenberg, this means the US Senate will be less progressive

Booker is a good person, but less progressive than Lautenberg (if he wins, but I do not know the other dems who may run). Rockefeller is a surprisingly progressive person for West Virginia, and it is unlikely that his successor, even if a Democrat, will be as progressive.

Hopefully, Harkin will say, or we will lose 2 people fighting for poor people in a US Senate who does not have that many, as most of the focus is and has been on the middle class.