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LANSING - The Eight Congressional Race is missing a familiar name in this year's elections.

Since 2001, the representative for that district has been Congressman Rogers. But after this year’s elections there will be a new face representing that district.

"As many of you know, I won't be seeking re-election," Rogers said in his radio endorsement of Republican Candidate Mike Bishop.

Congressman Rogers is well known for being the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. But Before moving to Washington D.C., he worked here in Lansing as a Michigan State Senator. From there, he went on to sponsor and co-sponsor several Bi-Partisan Bills, including one in 2011 to protect the country from cyber attacks. He discussed the threat of cyber-terrorism on Fox News in March of that year.

"Think about where cyber attacks have come from: It was the guy in his mother's basement trying to crack into the school computer to change his grades, and we all thought 'isn't that kind of cute?' From that, to whole nation states dedicating billions of dollars to hack our systems, to disrupt our systems," Rogers said to Fox News.

Rogers also strongly opposed the Affordable Care Act. But, as far as who replaces him goes, Rogers has endorsed his fellow Republican, Mike Bishop.

“We still need strong, conservative leadership in Washington,” Rogers said in his radio endorsement of Bishop.

According to his website, Congressman Rogers graduated from Adrian College in 1985, and also served as an FBI Special Agent before he was elected to the Michigan State Senate in 1995.

Congressman Rogers was unavailable to interview for this story.