Reuters: Politics: Longest-serving Florida Republican Congressman Bill Young dies: staff

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Longest-serving Florida Republican Congressman Bill Young dies: staff Oct 19th 2013, 00:44 Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:26pm EDT (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Bill Young of Florida, the longest-serving Republican member of Congress, has died barely a week after announcing his plans to retire next year after 22 terms, his family said in a statement. He was 82. Young, a former chairman of the powerful U.S. House Appropriations Committee who was still chairman of the Defense subcommittee, died at 6:50 p.m. ET (2250 GMT), his chief of staff, Harry Glenn, said in an email. Young had been recuperating from a back injury at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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