North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, who presided temporarily over the U.S. House for three intense weeks while Republicans struggled to elect a permanent speaker after Kevin McCarthy's ouster, announced Tuesday that he won't seek reelection to his seat next year.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), the chair of the Financial Services Committee, will not run for re-election in 2024. The announcement puts a bookend on his nearly two-decade tenure in Congress that, this year,