Sander Martin Levin (born September 6, 1931) is an American politician who served in the
United States House of Representatives
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from 1983 to 2019, representing (numbered as the from 1983 to 1993 and as the from 1993 to 2013). Levin, a member of the
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from
Michigan
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, is a former ranking member on the
House Ways and Means Committee;
he was Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee from 2010 to 2011. He is the older brother of former
U.S. Senator
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Carl Levin
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, and the father of current Congressman
Andy Levin, his successor.
In December 2017, Levin announced that he would retire from
Congress
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at the end of his current term, and not seek re-election in
2018
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