Honorable Eric Cantor
United States Representative, Virginia, Republican
Representative Cantor, of the Seventh District of Virginia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. He is the House majority leader. The following is from the July 31, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 850, the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act of 2013. The authoritarian regime in Iran is a brutal theocracy that suppresses dissent at home and sponsors terrorism and chaos abroad. For years, our State Department has listed Iran as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, and many Americans have lost their lives at the hands of Iranian-backed killers. In a bid to…
