Complex sentence: The incident attracted much publicity and led to Mills' resignation as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee two months later; he was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974, but he did not run for re-election in 1976.
Split into simpler sentences: The incident attracted much publicity and led to Mills' resignation two moths later as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He was re-elected to his congressional seat in 1974, but he did not run for re-election in 1976.