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The search for the new speaker is holding Congress up from other things like passing another spending bill, which is needed by Nov. 17 to avoid another shut down.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will follow in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's footsteps and step down to make way for fresh leadership come January.
She says after living and working in Lincoln her whole life, she wants to take her neighbors' concerns to Congress.