U.S. Representative Niki Tsongas (D-Lowell) will not seek re-election in 2018, she announced Wednesday morning.
Tsongas, 71, the widow of former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (1941-1997), was first elected in October 2007, in a special election to replace Marty Meehan, who left Congress to become chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
Technically, the city council of Lowell, Massachusetts merely endorsed the Paris climate change pact. The vote is part of a trend of left-leaning American city governments expressing public support for the global warming agreement, in protest of President Donald Trump's decision on June 1 to pull out of it.
