rebuild lookgives us a chance to at what those goals are and how to unify so that we can achieve those goals. we heard from the speaker today about how he announced it to the republican congress. how did you react when he announced that he would resign at the end of october? he said that when he was first elected as speaker, his plan was to serve for four years. eric cantor lost the primary, and we had to change majority leaders. he decided to stay on for another year. he was originally planning to stay through the end of this calendar year, and then he looked at the state of the conference and the fact that there was disunity and there would be another tough vote to reaffirm his speakership, which i think would have passed easily. why put everybody through that vote? he felt it was time to go ahead and get out of the way. the problembecome to us achieving those common goals. what did you think think when you first heard the announcement? this man made the most selfless decision you can expect any leader to make. in the first hour and a half, you heard person after person come up to th