Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA) announced Thursday he is resigning from Congress effective January 23, saying he will take a job in the private sector where he can leverage his expertise to create American jobs.
First elected in 2010, Marino won re-election for a fifth term in the recently formed 12th House District in the 2018 midterm election.
Marino was the fifth member of Congress to endorse then-candidate Donald Trump’s White House bid and served as co-chair of his presidential campaign in Pennsylvania.
In October 2017, Marino withdrew his candidacy as the administration’s drug czar nominee following reports that he pushed legislation that purportedly made it easier for pharmaceutical companies to distribute opioids in the United States.