It’s official: Former speaker Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican ousted from GOP leadership in early October, submitted his formal resignation from Congress on Tuesday.

“I hereby submit my resignation effective on Dec. 31, 2023, as United States Representative of the 20th District of California,” McCarthy said in a letter read Tuesday by the House reading clerk during a pro forma session. “It has been the honor of a lifetime to represent the great people and communities of Kern, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, Tulare, Fresno, and Kings counties over the past 17 years — and especially my hometown of Bakersfield in the central valley of the great state of California.”