Report: Rep. Wexler, a Florida Democrat, to resign

Rep. Robert Wexler, a South Florida Democrat and a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, is going to resign from Congress, the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel is reporting.

He'll announce his plans tomorrow morning at 10 at a news conference in Boca Raton, according to a Democratic source with knowledge of Wexler's plans, the paper says. Wexler is likely to take a public policy job that deals with the Middle East, according to the source.

Wexler has specialized in issues involving Israel and Turkey.

Posted by Michael Winter at 06:54 PM/ET, October 13, 2009 in Politics, Washington

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