Rep. Eric Cantor’s office is clarifying a statement it put out last week about the meeting between Cantor, the likely next House Majority Leader, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Cantor spokesperson Brad Dayspring told The Washington Post that Cantor’s comment to Netanyahu that the new Republican majority in the house ‘will serve as a check on the Administration’ was ‘not in relation to U.S./Israel relations.’Cantor and Netanyahu met in New York last Wednesday. In a statement describing the meeting Cantor’s office wrote:
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