Rep. Troy Nehls (R-Texas) has decided to retire from Congress.
“I have made the decision, after conversations with my beautiful bride and my girls over the Thanksgiving holiday, to focus on my family and return home from Congress,” he wrote in a social media post on Nov. 29.
Nehls has represented Texas’s 22nd congressional district since 2021. The district covers a largely suburban area southwest of Houston.
Before his time in Congress, Nehls served in the U.S. Army Reserve, eventually retiring at the rank of major. He then worked in law enforcement and served as the sheriff of Fort Bend County in Texas from 2013 to 2021….