Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American politician, lawyer and banker, serving as the United States representative for the 7th congress district in Virginia from 2001 to 2014. As a member of the Republican Party Party, he became the House Majority Leader when the 112th Congress was held on 3 January 2011. He previously served as the Whip Minority House from 2009 to 2011.
The district covers most of northern and western parts of Richmond, along with most of Richmond's western suburbs and, until redistricting in 2013, part of the Shenandoah Valley. The singer is a member of the highest-ranking Jewish Congress, and at the time of his resignation, the only non-Christian Republic in one of the houses.
In June 2014, in his bid for re-election, Singer lost his primary school principal to professor of economics Dave Brat in the upset that shocked political analysts. In response Cantor announced his resignation as Majority Leader of the House, and a few weeks later, he announced his resignation from Congress, which came into effect August 18, 2014. Soon after, Cantor accepted the position of vice chairman of the investment bank Moelis & Company.
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The singer, the second child of three siblings, was born in Richmond, Virginia, son of Mary Lee (nÃÆ' Â © e Hudes), a school teacher, and Eddie Cantor, who owns a real estate firm. His family emigrated from Russia, Romania, and Latvia in the late 1800s and early 1900s. His father was the state treasurer for the 1980 presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan. Cantor grew up in Conservative Judaism.
He graduated from Collegiate School, a private school together in Richmond, in 1981. He enrolled at George Washington University (GW) in 1981, and as a freshman he worked as an apprentice for House Republican Tom Bliley of Virginia and Bliley's drivers in a campaign in 1982. Cantor was a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at GW and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1985. He earned his Juris Doctor degree from William & Mary Law School in 1988, and received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1989.
The singer worked for over a decade with his father's business doing legal work and real estate development.
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Virginia House of Delegates
The singer served in Virginia House of Delegates from 1992-1 January 2001. On numerous occasions he was a member of the committee of Science and Technology, Corporate and Banking Insurance, General Law, Justice Court, (Claims chairman). Cantor announced on March 14, 2000 that he would seek a seat in the United States House of Representatives being vacated by Tom Bliley. Cantor had led Bliley's re-election campaign for the previous six years, and soon received support from Bliley's political organization, as well as Bliley's later support in the primaries.
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Committees assignment
During his first term, Cantor was chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Wars. He also serves on the House Financial Services Committee and in the House International Relations Committee and House Ways and Governance Committees.
Party leadership
In 2002 - just a few weeks after winning a second term - Roy Blunt appointed Cantor Chief Republican Whip Representative, the highest position appointed in the Republican caucus.
On 19 November 2008, Cantor unanimously elected Republican Whip for Congress 111, after serving as Deputy Whip for six years under Blunt. Blunt has decided not to seek re-election after receiving Republicans in two previous elections. The singer is the first member of one of the parties from Virginia to hold the Whip Party position. As Whip, Cantor is Republican Republican ranked second, behind Minority Leader John Boehner. He was assigned to coordinate the voice and messages of members of the Assembly of the Republic. The singer became the Majority Leader when the 112th Congress took office on 3 January 2011. In this position, he remains the second commander to Boehner, who is considered the leader of the House Republicans.
The singer is a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition and Republican National Committee. He is one of the Republicans largest fundraisers, having collected more than $ 30 million for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). He is also one of the three founding members of the Young Guns GOP Program. In the fall of 2010, Singer wrote a bestselling book of the New York Times, Young Guns: New Generation of Conservative Leaders, with two other founding members of Young Guns. They describe the vision outlined in the book as "a clear agenda based on common sense for the common good". The singer said in 2010 that he worked with the Tea Party movement in his district.
As the House Majority Leader, Cantor was named in House Resolution 368, endorsed by the House Rules Committee on the night of September 30, 2013, the night before the October government's closure began, as the only member of the House with the power to file bills and resolutions for votes if both Congress rooms do not agree on the bill or the resolution. Prior to the adoption of the resolution on the committee, it is within the power of each member of the People's Legislative Assembly under House Rule XXII, Clause 4 to be granted the privilege of calling for a vote. The amendment to House rules was blamed for causing partial closure of the government and extending it because Cantor refused to let the Senate resolution continue to be elected in the House. Journalists and commentators noted during the closing that if a Senate version of a sustained resolution would be elected, it would pass the House by a majority vote because enough Democrats and Republicans supported it, effectively ending the government shutdown.
Legislation
The singer is a strong supporter of the First Children's Research Act Gabriella Miller, who is the person appointed to honor Gabriella Miller. The bill, passed in both the House and the Senate, will end the taxpayer's contribution to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and divert money in the fund to pay for pediatric cancer research through the National Institutes of Health. Total funding for the research will reach $ 126 million over 10 years. In 2014, the national convention gets about 23% of their funds from the Presidential Election Campaign Fund. The singer said that the bill "clearly reflects the priority of Congress in funding: medical research before political parties and conventions".
Political position
For most of his career in the House, Cantor was the only Jewish Republican in the United States Congress. He supports strong United States-Israel relations. He is sponsoring legislation to cut all US taxpayers to the Palestinian Authority and another bill that calls for ending taxpayer assistance to Palestinians until they stop unauthorized excavation at Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Responding to claims by the State Department that the United States does not provide direct assistance to the Palestinian Authority, Cantor claims that the United States is sending approximately US $ 75 million in aid annually to the Palestinian Authority, administered by the US Agency for International Development.. He opposed a three-year package approved by Congress worth US $ 400 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority in 2000 and has also introduced legislation to end aid to Palestinians.
In May 2008, Cantor said that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was not a "constant pain" but a "constant reminder of America's greatness", and after Barack Obama's election in November 2008, Cantor declared that "a stronger US Israeli Relations" is a top priority for him and that he will be "very vocal" if Obama "does anything to ruin the relationship." Shortly after the midterm elections in 2010, the singer met privately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just before Netanyahu met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs US Hillary Clinton. According to Cantor's office, he "stressed that the new Republican majority would serve as a check on the Administration" and "explained that the majority of the Republic understands the special relationship between Israel and the United States." Singers were criticized for engaging in foreign policy; One basis for criticism is that in 2007, after Nancy Pelosi met with the Syrian President, Cantor himself had raised the possibility "that the recent diplomatic offer is at loggerheads with the Logan Act, which makes it a crime for every American" without the authority of America United States' to communicate with foreign governments to influence the government's behavior on disputes with the United States. "
Social issues
The singer opposes the public funding of embryonic stem cell research and opposes elective abortion. He scored 100% by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) and 0% by NARAL Pro-Choice America, which shows an anti-choice vote. He also opposed same-sex marriage in the mid-2000s, choosing to constitutionally define marriage as between men and women in 2006. In November 2007 he voted against the prohibition of employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. He also supports the creation of illegal arson flags. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) gave it a 19% value in 2006, showing an anti-affirmative voting record. He opposed arms control, opting to ban lawsuits of misuse of products to arms producers in 2005, and he chose not to require weapons registrations and key-trigger laws in the District of Columbia. He was rated "A" by the National Rifle Association (NRA). On November 2, 2010, Cantor told Wolf Blitzer of CNN that he would try to cut the federal deficit by reducing welfare.
Economics, budgeting and trading
Cantor is a supporter of free trade, voting to promote trade with Peru, Chile, Singapore and Australia. He also opted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). He voted against raising the minimum wage to US $ 7.25 in 2007. The Federation of Workers and Congress of the American Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), the largest trade union federation in the United States, named Cantor 0%, indicating anti-United sound recording.
In October 2008, Cantor advocated and selected TARP programs that helped depressed banks.
On September 29, 2008, Cantor blamed Pelosi for what he perceived as a $ 700 billion bailout economic bailout failure. He noted that 94 Democrats voted against the move, as well as the Republican Party. Despite supporting the Federal Reserve's largest private bank bailout, he referred to Pelosi's proposal to appoint a Car Tsar to run the US Automotive Industry Bailout as a private business "bureaucracy".
In February following, Cantor led the Republican Party in the House of Representatives in a vote against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 and is a prominent spokesperson in voicing many of the issues that he and his Republican colleagues have with the law. Cantor voted in favor of a 90% marginal tax rate increase on taxpayer paid bonuses, despite receiving a campaign contribution from TARP's Citigroup recipients.
In his book Young Guns, the singer sums up the Keynesian economy with the following opinion, "The idea is that the government can be counted on to spend more money than people."
As a Majority Leader, Cantor directs the STOCK Act through the House of Representatives, which requires members of Congress to disclose their stock investments more regularly and in a more transparent manner. The law endorsed the House of Representatives in a 417-2 bipartisan vote on 9 February 2012. It was finally signed by President Obama on April 4, 2012. In July 2012, CNN reported that changes made by the House of Representatives version of the law excluded reporting requirements by spouse and dependent children. Initially, Cantor's office insisted on doing nothing to change the intent of the STOCK Act; However, when presented with new information from CNN, the Office of Majority Leaders acknowledges that the change has been made inadvertently and offers technical corrections to meet the original purpose of the law. This correction was passed by Congress on 3 August 2012.
As a Majority Leader, Cantor led the JOBS Act through the House of Representatives, which incorporated bipartisan ideas for economic growth - such as crowdfunding for startups - into a single law. In the end, President Obama, Eric Cantor, Steve Case and other leaders joined together at the signing ceremony.
Cantor has proposed initiatives intended to help small businesses grow, including a 20 percent tax cut for businesses that employ fewer than 500 people.
other overseas affairs
In an article he wrote for the National Review in 2007, he condemned Nancy Pelosi's diplomatic visit to Syria, and his meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, whom he called "dictators and terror sponsors"; said that if "the diplomatic talk of Pelosi Speakers to Syria is not so dangerous for US interests in the Middle East, that would be ridiculous."
In 2014, Cantor criticized what he described as "isolationist sentiment" and said it was a mistake to withdraw from Iraq and called for troops to remain in Afghanistan.
During the 2016 presidential election Cantor, an Israeli supporter, asked Donald Trump to be more consistent with his support for Israel.
Political campaign
Cantor previously represented Virginia's 7th congress district, which stretches from the western end of Richmond, through the suburbs, and north to Page, Rappahannock Culpeper and parts of Spotsylvania, county. It also includes the towns of Mechanicsville and Laurel. The district is very Republican; has been in the hands of the Republic since 1981 (it was numbered as the 3rd District before 1993).
Virginia House of Delegates
The singer was first elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1991, winning a race to seat 73 districts without a fight. He was re-elected in 1993 with 79% of the vote. He won re-election in 1995, 1997, and 1999; in all three races he was not opposed.
House of Representatives
The singer was first elected to the US House of Representatives in 2000, and successfully resigned from President Tom Bliley, 20 years old. He defeated Democratic nominee Warren A. Stewart, with nearly 100,000 votes. The singer has won the closest controversial Republican party from Senator Stephen Martin with just 263 votes. During his first term, he was one of only two Jewish Republicans serving simultaneously in the House of Representatives, the other being Benjamin A. Gilman of New York. Gilman retired in 2002 leaving Cantor as the only member of the Jewish Republican Council.
In 2002, Cantor was opposed by Democrat Ben Jones, a former congressman from Georgia, who once played "Cooter Davenport" in the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard.
In 2004, Cantor was opposed by Independent W. B. Blanton. The singer won with 75.5% of the vote. In 2006, Cantor was opposed by Democrat James M. Nachman and Independent W. B. Blanton. The singers won with 64% to Nachman 34% and Blanton 2%.
In August 2008, news reports appeared that Cantor was considered a vice presidential candidate of John McCain, with representatives of McCain looking for documents from Cantor as part of his review process. The idea for Cantor to become a life partner of McCain is supported by conservative leaders such as Richard Land and Erick Erickson. The singer was not elected to the vice-presidential nomination, and in his re-election campaign in 2008, Cantor beat Democrat challenger Anita Hartke 63% -37%.
In 2010, Cantor was re-elected with 59% of the vote.
In 2012, Cantor faces the main challenger, Floyd C. Bayne, in the Republican primary June 12; The singer won the primary with 79% of the vote and then beat Democratic challenger Wayne Powell in the general election. Although he won with 58% of the vote, Cantor received the lowest percentage of votes since being elected to Congress in 2000.
2014 Republican primary and resignation
On June 10, 2014, in disagreement, Cantor lost 444% -55.5% of the Republicans to Dave Brat, Tea Party candidate and a professor at Randolph-Macon College. It made the first Cantor sit the majority of House leaders losing the primary since the position was made in 1899. The first internal campaign poll showed Cantor 30 points in front of Brat, and he exceeded Brat 40 to 1.
Cantor's losses in primary were described by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the greatest modern political intrusions." His losses were due to many factors including his moderate views after entering the House leadership, who was cut off from his district, lack of enthusiasm among his supporters, low turnout for primary elections, and support from Brat from talk show host radio.
Despite the national media's shock over Brat's victory, Richmond region media have received far-off signs before the primary that Cantor is in trouble. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported two weeks before the primary that a number of Cantor's constituents felt he considered it a natural thing. The Times-Dispatch also reveals that the singer's attempt to brand Brat as a liberal professor really makes more people turn into Brat. The Chesterfield Observer, a local newspaper serving Chesterfield County - roughly half of it on the 7th floor - reported that the Tea-Party-aligned candidate has won some victories there, and at least one Cantor loyalist believes. Tea Party supporters smell "blood in the water." A local reporter told David Carr of The New York Times that many constituencies believe Cantor is arrogant and unapproachable. However, due to massive cuts, the race was very poorly surveyed by local media. Some Capitol Hill reporters are willing to go to Cantor district, for fear they'll get out of Washington if there's a headline break.
After his primary defeat, Cantor announced his resignation as the House Majority Leader effective July 31, 2014, and stated that he would not campaign for elections. In an interview with Richmond Times-Dispatch on July 31, 2014, Cantor announced his resignation from the effective Congress on August 18, 2014, and said he had asked Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to call a special election on 4 November 2014 to coincide with the 2014 election.
On Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014, the advisory firm of Moelis & amp; The Company announces that it appoints Eric Cantor as vice chairman and managing director and that he will be selected for Moelis & amp; Board of directors of the company.
Campaign office threats and incidents
After passing the health care reform bill in March 2010, Cantor reported that someone had fired a bullet through the window of his campaign office in Richmond, Virginia. A Richmond police spokesman later stated that the bullet was accidentally shot at Cantor's office, saying that it was not a random shot, as there were no signs outside the office identifying the office as Cantor. The singer responded by saying that Democratic leaders in the House should stop "dangerously fanning the fire" by blaming Republicans for threats against the Democratic House who voted for health care legislation.
Cantor also reported that he had received threatening emails related to the bill's expenditure. In March 2010, Norman Leboon was arrested for making threats against Cantor and his family.
In 2011, Cantor received two threatening phone calls from Glendon Swift that left "a screaming and indecent message [allegedly claimed that he would destroy Cantor, raped his daughter and killed his wife." Swift was sentenced in April 2012 to 13 months in federal prison.
Electoral history
Personal life
The singer meets his wife, Diana Marcy Fine, on a blind date; and they married in 1989. They have three children, Evan, Jenna, and Michael, and live in Wyndham, an unincorporated suburb community near Richmond (although Cantor is listed in the House scroll as "R-Richmond"). Contrary to her husband, she is a lifelong liberal democrat, is pro-choice and supports same-sex marriage.
Diana Cantor is a certified public attorney and accountant. He was founded, and from 1996 to 2008 was the executive director, Virginia College Savings Plan (the agent of the Commonwealth of Virginia). He is also chairman of the board of the Campus Savings Plan Network. Diana Cantor is managing director of Emigrant Bank division, a subsidiary of New York Private Bank & amp; Trust Corp
See also
- List of Jewish members from the United States Congress
References
External links
- Biography at the Directory of Congressional Biographies of the United States
- Profile in Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Electoral Commission
- Rules are sponsored in the Library of Congress
- Allison Hoffman: "The Gentleman From Virginia". Tablet Magazine , February 8, 2011
Media appearance
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Interview on BlogTalkRadio, August 2, 2008
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