House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he’s not afraid of voicing his dismay.
In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday, Cantor told one GOP member that if they blocked the Senate-passed Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) from coming to the floor, they’d cause “civil war” in the ranks.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341825/closed-door-meeting-cantor-warned-civil-war-katrina-trinko
The Senate did its part, so will the House follow suit today and pass a fiscal cliff package?
So far, the answer is, we really don’t know.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office says there’s no decision yet on whether the House will vote today on the fiscal cliff deal passed by the Senate.
The deal, which passed the Democratic-controlled Senate in an overwhelming 89-8 vote in the middle of the night, would maintain [...]
The House Rules Committee will convene in an emergency meeting on Monday to consider a measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, according to a news release.
Last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office said the vote to repeal the health care law would be set for July 11.
http://influencealley.nationaljournal.com/2012/07/rules-committee-to-hold-emerge.php
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that the Republican-led House will vote on repealing the health care law soon after the July 4 recess.
Cantor, who sets the floor schedule in the House, said in a statement that the House will vote on the repeal the week of July 9 – which Cantor said will clear the path for “patient-centered reforms that lower costs and increase choice.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/06/cantor-house-will-vote-on-repeal-week-of-july-127555.html
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday that the Republican-led House will vote on repealing the health care law soon after the July 4 recess.
Cantor, who sets the floor schedule in the House, said in a statement that the House will vote on the repeal the week of July 9 – which Cantor said will clear the path for “patient-centered reforms that lower costs and increase choice.”
“The Supreme Court’s [...]
House Republican leaders on Friday sent a letter to Attorney GeneralEric H. Holder Jr. demanding he comply with the GOP’s official investigation into Obama administration gun-running operation Fast & Furious, which allowed hundreds of guns to be sneaked across the border to Mexican cartels.
In the letter, Speaker John A. Boehner and his top lieutenants warn that the House will be prepared to “act to fulfill our constitutional obligations” — which could include holding Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress — [...]
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor justifies his latest big tax break for millionaires by dragging out an old, big lie.
“CANTOR: We also know that over 45 percent of the people in this country don’t pay income taxes at all, and we have to question whether that’s fair. And should we broaden the base in a way that we can lower the rates for everybody that pays taxes. [...]
KARL: Just wondering, what do you do [...]
http://www.louise.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=90&Itemid=139
On December 7, 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor indefinitely postponed a scheduled markup of the legislation. The bill currently has 235 co-sponsors- 153 Democrats and 82 Republicans. A bill needs 218 votes for passage by the House of Representatives.
This bill had enough support and co-sponsors to PASS had it finished going through the process and gone to voting, but Eric Cantor prevented any voting to occur by indefinitely postponing it.
This should be [...]
Kristina Chew
Care2
The drive to stop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) seems to be working. On Saturday, the Obama administration criticized SOPA for potentially ”disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet.” Now, The Hill reports that the controversial bill has been shelved. While SOPA was intended to go after websites that illegally offer copies of music, movies and TV shows, technology giants like Google, Facebook and Reddit have argued that the legislation will curtail innovation and freedom [...]
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) (AP Photo)
(CNSNews.com) – House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that President Barack Obama’s $447-billion American Jobs Act was dead, adding that Obama’s “all or nothing” approach would not work.
At a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday, a reporter asked Cantor whether the “jobs package as a package [was] dead?”
Cantor said, “yes,” and shortly thereafter said, “It seems [...]
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor recently said that government just can’t keep its promises to Americans. In that case he was talking Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Now he’s including extending unemployment compensation in the promises he wants to break, on the grounds that extending the insurance program is “pumping up” the jobless.
In response to today’s jobs report, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor [...]
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
(CNSNews.com) – When asked today whether he thought the resignation of National Public Radio CEO Vivian Schiller was a good move, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that House Republicans will “proceed†with defunding NPR.
“The statements were that NPR realizes it doesn’t need taxpayer funding. That’s what the statement was about,” Cantor said at a news availability following a meeting of the [...]
House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer of Md., speaks to supporters at an election night party in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Washington (CNSNews.com) – House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that it may take as many as 20 years to balance the federal budget after years of deficit spending in Washington.
At Hoyer’s weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, CNSNews.com [...]
Middle-Class Tax Cuts May Be On Chopping Block, House Majority Leader Says
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tiptoed into dangerous political territory Tuesday, suggesting that to cut the government’s record budget deficits dramatically, popular middle-class tax reductions set to expire at year’s end could be extended only temporarily. Hoyer, a Maryland Democrat, also suggested that future Social Security benefits may have to be [...]
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