With retirements, Michigan's influence set to fade

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Remember though, John Conyers, Sander Levin, and Fred Upton will all still be employed next year, and each of them has been in the House forever.

It's entirely possible that Debbie Dingell is friends with her husband's friends, and may inherit a whole host of powerful connections.

I get the feeling that if Sen. Levin wasn't retiring, this article wouldn't have been written. I didn't see this article written when Stupak, Hoekstra, and Ehlers all retired at the same time--with Dale Kildee following two years later.