Steve Scalise says drops out of race for U.S. House speaker

(Reuters) – Steve Scalise, who had secured the Republican Party’s nomination to be the next speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives but was short of the 217 votes needed to be elected on the House floor, has dropped out of the race, he said on Thursday. Read full story

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