Cantor and Hoyer Reunite to Push Obama on Iran Nuclear Talks
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer are together again, jointly urging the Obama administration to take a hard line on preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon while supporting the administration’s diplomatic effort.
The Virginia Republican and Maryland Democrat on Monday afternoon released the text of a letter to President Barack Obama that urges him to “keep all options on the table to prevent this dangerous regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.”
Notably, they say they support Obama’s diplomatic effort, although they had split over strategy last year.
Cantor and Hoyer had been working together on a nonbinding resolution expressing a sense of the House that any nuclear arms agreement between the U.S. and Iran should prevent Iran from ever obtaining such weapons.
But Hoyer ultimately split from Cantor under pressure from the administration, which strongly opposed any new legislative effort while talks were ongoing. Many of Hoyer’s fellow House Democrats decried what they called partisan GOP efforts to undermine Obama’s diplomatic overtures and White House foreign policy generally.
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