Cantor: ‘I Hope There Are No Outbursts Tonight’

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said today he hopes there are no Joe Wilson-esque outbursts from his party at tonight’s State of the Union address, but wouldn’t say whether GOP leaders had expressly instructed members on how to behave.

TPMDC asked Cantor if he has given Republican members any direction about how they should behave tonight give Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “You lie” during President Obama’s last address to Congress in September.

“If the question is do I hope there are no outbursts tonight, the answer is yes. I made that statement known,” Cantor said during a short press availability this afternoon.

Wilson, for his part, says he won’t be heckling again.

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