--- title: Steve Scalise Drops Out of House Speaker Race | TIME description: Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel. Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting late Thursday of his decision. Next steps are uncertain as the House is now essentially closed while the Republican majority tries to elect a speaker after ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job. canonical: https://time.com/video/3asVZf1E/ og:title: Steve Scalise Drops Out of House Speaker Race og:description: Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel. Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting late Thursday of his decision. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Steve Scalise Drops Out of House Speaker Race [Watch (HLS stream): Steve Scalise Drops Out of House Speaker Race](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/3asVZf1E.m3u8) (2:55)  _Published 2023-10-13. Republican Steve Scalise has ended his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel. Scalise told GOP colleagues at a closed-door meeting late Thursday of his decision. Next steps are uncertain as the House is now essentially closed while the Republican majority tries to elect a speaker after ousting Kevin McCarthy from the job._ --- Oct 23, 2023 5:27 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [House Republicans Nominate Steve Scalise for Speaker](/video/kNncQ9Xb/) ### House Republicans Nominate Steve Scalise for Speaker [The 118th Congress Begins With Contentious Speaker of the House Vote](/video/7PqjbTXw/):51 ### The 118th Congress Begins With Contentious Speaker of the House Vote [Watch: McCarthy Drops Out of Speaker Race](/video/TYyCro1F/) ### Watch: McCarthy Drops Out of Speaker Race --- ## Transcript A first, let me, I know we've been following this has been quite a journey and there's still a long way to go. I just share with my colleagues and I'm withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker. If you look at over the last few weeks to look at where our conference is, there still work to be done. Our conference still has to come together and is not, there are still some people that have their own agendas. And I was very clear. We have to have everybody, put their agendas on the side and focus on what this country needs. This country is counting on us to come back together. This House of Representatives, he needs a speaker and we need to open up the house again. But clearly not everybody is there. And they're still schisms that have to get resolved. I never came here for title. I've had some great titles on the majority leader in the house and I love the job. I have I've got a big challenges in my life. I've been tested in ways that really put perspective on life. Really the 2017 shooting. What? I didn't know if I was going to make it out, alive, what's important in life? And that's my family, my face and I'm blessed beyond belief. I have absolutely all the right perspective and I still have a deep deep passion for making sure we get our country back on track and get our conference fixed again. I bet there's some folks that really need to look in the mirror over the next couple of days and decide. Are we going to get it back on track and they're going to try to pursue their own agenda. If you can't do both and I think we're going to get there, I was very clear in that room and then ultimately we would have to come together for the country. But I never came here for title and it's much bigger than me, and it's much bigger than anybody else. And nobody is going to use me as an excuse to hold back. Our ability to get the house opened again. And I'm going to continue to push as hard as we can to make that happen, as quickly as it has to happen. But it wasn't going to happen happen soon. But I was wrong my name and I appreciate the interest along the way. We still have work to do. We have to get this done at work. 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