House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes a brief statement on the tragedy in Oklahoma following the weekly meeting of the House Republican Conference.

“Our hearts break when we see images of the terrible devastation in Oklahoma from last night and this morning. Families torn apart, kids taken from us way to earlier, and communities devastated.

“As we heard from our Oklahoma colleagues, the people of Oklahoma are strong. The people of our country are strong. We will help them rebuild and do what is necessary as Americans always do.

“We will continue to focus here in Washington on making sure that does happen and that we address the other challenges that our nation faces.”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes a statement following the weekly meeting of the House Republican Conference.

Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced that the House will investigate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for targeting certain tax-exempt organizations for their political affiliation:

The IRS cannot target or intimidate any individual or organization based on their political beliefs. The House will investigate.

— Eric Cantor (@GOPLeader) May 10, 2013

Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor commended House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton for urging state attorneys general and state health officials to provide additional information about the regulation of abortion clinics and prosecution of related crimes:

“We have all watched with horror as the atrocities allegedly committed by Pennsylvania abortionist Kermit Gosnell have been revealed during his ongoing trial for the murder of four babies, allegedly causing the death of one woman, and hundreds of other criminal counts. The fact that Gosnell evaded the law for so long has raised issues about whether these clinics are being adequately inspected, and when violations of the law are discovered, whether those are being prosecuted. I commend Chairmen Goodlatte and Upton and their committee members for seeking answers to these questions in letters sent to attorneys general and state health officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia today. We look forward to receiving responses to these inquiries.”

If there is one thing every working parent can agree on, it's that there always seems to be a shortage of time: time with kids, time for errands, time with family. There is never enough time. 

This week, the House is considering the Working Families Flexibility Act – also known as #YourTime.

#YourTime will allow working parents to choose how they want to be paid for their overtime: in time-and-a-half cash wages or as time-and-a-half paid time off.

It is pro-family, pro-worker legislation that gives workers the flexibility to spend time with family, attend parent-teacher conferences, care for aging parents, stay home with a newborn or attend to other family needs that may arise.

Today, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline, Rep. Martha Roby and Rep. Renee Ellmers joined private sector employees and working parents for a roundtable discussion about #YourTime in Falls Church, Virginia.

Leader Cantor made the following remarks after the conclusion of the roundtable discussion: 

“We want to thank CENTECH for hosting us today and I want to salute Chairman John Kline and of course the bill’s sponsor Representative Martha Roby for all their hard work on the Working Families Flexibility Act, which is what this bill is called, and it’s called that for a reason.