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host: aidan quigley, a reporter with cq roll call. follow his reporting on roll call.com. >> at mediacom we believe that whether you live here or right here or way out in the middle of anywhere you should have access to fast, reliable internet. that's why we're leading the way to bring you internet. mediacom supports c-span as a public service along with the other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> welcome back to c-span's live coverage of the speaker election on capitol hill. the house will gavel back into session at 12:00 p.m. eastern time. plans have changed. we have learned in the last hour that jim jordan will no longer seek a third round of voting on his nomination. we want to get your reactions to the latest. phone numbers will be on your screen. start dialing. in joining us from capitol hill is mika sullner who reports on congress for punch bowl news. let's begin with this development. why has he decided not to seek the speakership in a third round of voting. he has not dropped out entirely, rig

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aidan quigley go ahead try to i think so. there is a lot of kind of looming threat of a primary challenger is kind of the scariest thing you can say to a, many house members, but i think a lot of them are really dug in here and feel really strongly, especially supporters of steve scalise who are voting against jim jordan on the floor now, some of them are just feel he won the election, official speaker election against jordan fair and square and he should be speaker not jim jordan. i think they're pretty dug in and not moving. >> host: if and when this gets settled what's the first piece of legislation the house brings to the four? >> guest: i think the top property for the house will be a to israel, expect a request from the white house tomorrow which could be around $100 billion for israel for israel, ukraine, taiwan, a really big appropriations package is heading the way of congress. but i think it is deathly going to go, the senate is going to move first. the house usually was first but with the speaker the sin is gearing