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Since 2011, House Republicans Have Wasted 15 Percent Of Their Time Trying To Repeal Obamacare
Last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) promised to schedule the first full Obamacare repeal vote for this legislative session. That vote, which will likely come on Thursday, will give freshman Republicans in the 113th Congress the opportunity to cast their own purely symbolic vote against health care reform. It will also mark the [...]
Eric Cantor, misunderstood
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) chatted with National Review's Robert Costa this week, and Costa complained that President Obama "doesn't seem to socialize" with House Republicans. Cantor replied that he'd "just had drinks" with White House chief of staff Denis McDonou …
Eric Cantor explains why everything's all President Obama's fault
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, in an interview with National Review's Robert Costa, says he sees his primary job as passing legislation that will win votes for Republicans:
COSTA: Do you see all of your work this year as a rebranding...Show More Summary
On Monday’s Radio Show…
• Alan looks into House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s vow to repeal Obamacare.
Dog bites man. Cantor promises Obamacare repeal vote.
Sequester, schemester. Forget restoring Meals on Wheels and Head Start and cancer treatments. The House has far more important things to do.
Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told House Republicans on Friday that they will soon get a chance to vote a full repeal of ObamaCare. [...]Show More Summary
A House divided against itself
It didn't get much attention last week, but House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) suffered a significant defeat last week. The Virginia Republican, as part of a larger rebranding campaign, crafted something called the "Helping Sick Americans Now Act," which intended to trans …
Congress turns its attention to helium
The New York Times had a lengthy report on House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) struggling rebranding effort the other day, and noted something unexpected at the very end of the article: "[T]he House will turn for the rest of the week to the Responsible Helium Administrat …
Sniping attacks from Ted Cruz's staff helped kill Eric Cantor's rebranding bill
Calgary Cruz cannot be popular in the House majority leader's office right now.
The rebellion against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's Republican rebranding effort on health care didn't just come from House Republicans. Emails obtained by Buzzfeed show that Sen. Show More Summary
For GOP and health care, it's all or nothing
We talked earlier about House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who thought he was being clever. He unveiled a bill that would invest in high-risk pools for those with pre-existing conditions, but pay for it by gutting the critical provisions of the Affordable Care Act. For C …
House GOP kills Cantor's health-care scheme
It looked like House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) had come up with a fairly clever scheme. Unfortunately for him, it died yesterday when his fellow House Republicans refused to go along. The gambit was a little complicated, but in a nutshell, Cantor thought he'd come up w …
GOP Legislation Theater
Today House Republicans pulled a bill from the floor that was intended to embarrass Democrats and undermine the Affordable Care Act. Majority Leader Eric Cantor had sponsored the “Helping Sick Americans Now Act,” which — … would siphon $3.6 billion from the Affordable Care Act’s $10 billion prevention and public health fund, aimed at combating [...]
Republicans Rejected Invitation To Accompany Obama To Israel
How’s that for bipartisanship? Most notably, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) declined an invitation to attend a Jerusalem state dinner in honor of Obama because Congress is voting on government funding and the 2014 budget this week, several sources said. The White House invited Cantor to Obama’s speech in Jerusalem. Administration sources said a broad [...]
Who's 'creating havoc'?
Here's House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), arguing that sequestration cuts are dangerous: "The sequester will harm important domestic priorities such as education, medical research, law enforcement, national security, and job...
Eric Cantor Privately Warns Of Republican Civil War
The Majority Leader doesn’t like how some House Republicans are defying the leadership. 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. Cantor’s comment irked some Republican aides, who [...]
Violence Against Women Act clears House, headed to Obama's desk
In the last Congress, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) played a critical role in blocking reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. In this Congress, Cantor was so eager to get VAWA passage over with, he told House Republicans yesterday to either clear the way …
Cantor's candid confession
Among congressional Republicans, especially House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), a certain mythology has taken root on the fiscal negotiations from the summer of 2011. Unfortunately for the party, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has just helped debunk the GOP's story. …
What contempt for the public looks like
Did you happen to catch yesterday's Capitol Hill press conference with the entirety of the House Republican leadership? House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House Republican Conference Cathy McMorris Rodgers wanted …
Republican leader Eric Cantor mocks senior citizens
Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor probably thought he was being clever. But it turns out, as is so often the case, he was just being a jackass: President Obama wants to raise your taxes so he can pay people $1.2 million to play World of Warcraft. Show More Summary
A lot of cooks in the GOP's kitchen
We talked recently about House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) rebranding initiative, which is his fourth such effort in the last four years. Apparently, he's going to have some company. When Cantor launched his first rebranding effort in 2009, it was through an entity cal …
Eric Cantor outlines House Republican position on sequester: 'We're going to hurt a lot of people'
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor says he hates the sequester: I don't want to live with the sequester. I want reductions in spending that make sense. These indiscriminate reductions do not make sense. But he doesn't hate it enough to repeal it or replace it with something Democrats and Republicans can agree on. Show More Summary