Citing a “sobering and sad week,” House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer announced that the Republican and Democratic leaders would forgo their weekly partisan exchange about the House schedule and instead promised to “sit down together,” to help unify the nation.

Hoyer, D-Md., said he met with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Friday after the nation was shaken by the shooting of a dozen Dallas police officers, five of them fatally. The shooting came after two black men were killed by police officers in separate incidents in Louisiana and Minnesota.