Book From Alan Grayson's Opponent Todd Long Promotes Falsified American History

In 2008 Pickering opted to not run again for his twelve-year congressional seat, and the following year Pickering's wife, with whom Chip Pickering had fathered and raised five sons, filed a lawsuit for alienation of affection which alleged that Pickering had carried on an adulterous affair while living at the infamous "C Street House" maintained by the Washington D.C. neo-evangelical network known as The Fellowship (or The Family), which sponsors the yearly National Prayer Breakfast.

Pickering's surprise retirement from national politics came shortly after cosponsoring legislation to declare 2008 "the National Year of the Bible".