USA TODAY STOCK act doesn't go far enough, Eric Cantor says Politico House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Tuesday the Senate's version of the STOCK Act didn't go far enough and that he'll push through a stricter version in the House if the Senate doesn't “strengthen” the bill. The House's No. Scott Brown calls for swift passage of bill to ban insider trading by members ... Boston.com Senate debates insider trading ban for Congress Philadelphia Inquirer After her insider-trading bill...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have introduced their version of a bill to ban insider trading by thousands of federal officials, and have added provisions to bar lawmakers convicted of a felony from collecting their government pensions.
In a provision aimed directly at Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, the bill, introduced late Tuesday, would ban lawmakers from using their positions to invest in initial public offerings of stock. Pelosi has denied that she did anything like that.
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Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., joins Morning Joe to discuss the GOP response to the president's Tuesday State of the Union address. Add this to your queue Added: Wed Jan 25 21:16:13 UTC 2012 Air date: Wed Jan 25 00:00:00 UTC 2012 Duration: 08:06Read Full Story
Unemployment numbers improved again last month, with January coming in at +243,000 jobs and the unemployment rate falling to 8.3%. That's good news for the country and for President Obama, so the Republicans like Rep. Eric Cantor are immediately moving the goalposts again and continuing to assault the President on his "failure to create jobs"...and of course taking all the credit for the growth.
In Cantor’s Friday statement, he continued to press the GOP message
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As the bill was being considered, amendments made it stronger. Notably, the Senate reinserted a provision on lobbyists, hedge fund managers and Wall Street traders obtaining and using inside government information. The provision is very modest, requiring ...
Eric Cantor met his wife in a liberal hotbed.
The Republican House majority leader apparently went on a blind date with his wife, Diana, at The New Deal, a now-defunct SoHo restaurant with an FD...
Congressman Eric Cantor is encouraging people to submit “frivolous ... goal-directed – it’s just geared towards figuring out how the world works. It may or may not pay off in terms of profits, and what payoffs occur might be decades ...
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-7th, also addressed the 2012 Mock Convention at Washington and Lee University, weaving anecdotes of middle-class success with a scorching rebuke of the economic policies of President Barack Obama's administration.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made the announcement ... "The simple answer is it has become too expensive to start your business," says Rep. Cantor, "Time and time again successful CEOs say to me that 'there is no way I could start a ...
Working for America It is long-past time to make Washington work for the People again. The Congress needs to focus on finding common-sense solutions for the everyday problems ...
When asked who might lead the GOP out of the wilderness, the name John McCain is not often mentioned prominently by many of the party leaders gathering in St. Paul, Minn. Itâs not only his age, or that heâs never been a party kind of guy. For ...