Cantor Facing Criticism On His Right Flank
The bipartisan efforts of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on a range of issues have attracted grumblings from the right....
The bipartisan efforts of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on a range of issues have attracted grumblings from the right....
Roll Call | John Stanton | Posted 04.06.2012
In the waning days of a bruising primary between Illinois GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger and Don Manzullo, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor donated $25,000...
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 04.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will sign the JOBS Act into law Thursday, clinching a rare and hard-fought bipartisan victory for his presidency....
HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- Congress was close to a deal to extend a popular payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits, according to several reports. The pending...
Posted 01.30.2012
By LARRY MARGASAK, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Aware that most Americans would like to dump them all, members of Congress hope to regain so...
Posted 12.21.2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn (Tim Ghianni, Reuters) - A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to making threatening drunken profanity-laced telephone calls to U.S. ...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 01.17.2012
WASHINGTON — Millions of taxpayers who take advantage of deductions for mortgage interest, charitable donations and state and local taxes would ...
AP | DAVID ESPO and ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 01.15.2012
WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner publicly blessed a Republican deficit-reduction plan Tuesday that would raise $300 billion in additional...
The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 01.10.2012
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was interrupted by protesters Thursday at a speech at Rice University in Houston. "Eric Cantor is not wel...
Roll Call | John Stanton | Posted 01.01.2012
Republicans may be trying to focus their messaging on jobs and the economy -- and hammering President Barack Obama for campaigning -- but they still h...
AP | By JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.27.2011
WASHINGTON -- The House will be in session less than one out of every three days next year, a slight decline from past years. House Republicans say th...
New York Magazine | Jason Zengerle | Posted 12.03.2011
The House majority leader is trying to stop the U.S. government in its tracks. And so far, he's doing a pretty effective job....
Doug Molitor | Posted 11.08.2011
It came at the end of a summer with too many superhero movies and too many Republicans debating each other.
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Congress will take up a continuing resolution to fund the government on the week of Sept. 19, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ...
Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 10.31.2011
On Monday, Cantor sent a memo to his GOP colleagues about what he called his "jobs agenda." But the memo wasn't about jobs, it was a list of environmental regulations the Tea Party has been targeting all year.
Mark Steinberg | Posted 10.08.2011
It was announced today that the United States of America, also known as the U.S., U.S.A. and the U.S. of A., died during the last week of August 2011 ...
Ari Melber | Posted 09.23.2011
By fully caving on this stand-off, where the White House is backed by the general public and large swaths of the GOP, Obama would not only fail to impress independent voters, he'd ensure a drubbing on a series of future fights.
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 09.20.2011
A few days after he had received $2,000 campaign contribution from the Pakistani lobbyists, Rep. Joe Pitts introduced a resolution in 2004 which, reflecting Islamabad's stance, called for a more activist U.S. role in resolving the dispute over Kashmir.
The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 09.14.2011
There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relie...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 09.13.2011
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has become both a key player and big pain to more seasoned negotiators in the White House talks o...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- Testy lawmakers pointed fingers at one another and President Barack Obama on Thursday as negotiations over raising the national debt lim...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2011
To be sure, Republicans have always been against the concept of Medicare. But hypocrisy entered into the discourse last year, when they attempted to position themselves as the ones who were going to "save Medicare."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.05.2011
WASHINGTON -- Congressional GOP leaders said on Tuesday that the Obama administration has informed them that it will oppose a last-ditch stopgap fundi...
The Economist | M.S. | Posted 05.25.2011
I'M HAVING trouble writing about the GOP effort to reach a compromise over whether to cut $100 billion out of the 2011 budget, or just $50-60 billion....
Posted 05.25.2011
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has begged off sitting with Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) at Tuesday night's State of the Union Ad...
The Hill | Posted 05.14.2012