HUFFINGTON POST: …House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced on Tuesday that he would support President Barack Obama’s call for action in Syria, and urged his colleagues to do so as well.
“I’m going to support the president’s call for action. I believe my colleagues should support this call for action,” Boehner said after a meeting with Obama and congressional leaders. “We have enemies around the world that need to understand that we’re not going to tolerate this type of behavior.”…
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that he would support a resolution backing military action. “While the authorizing language will likely change, the underlying reality will not,” he said in a statement. America has a compelling national security interest to prevent and respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction, especially by a terrorist state such as Syria, and to prevent further instability in a region of vital interest to the United States.” … (more)
