Eric Cantor skips dinner in the Hamptons

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If Eric Cantor wasn’t bogged down with the debt negotiations over the weekend, he could have been at the beach. The New York Post reports that the House majority leader “bailed on a fund-raising dinner to be hosted by Goldman Sachs honcho Lloyd Blankfein Friday night.”

Cantor planned to dine at Blankfein's presumably magnificent home in the Hamptons, but his rep told the paper that he “canceled his weekend travel so as to be available for any meetings or developments as we work toward a solution on the debt.” Cantor's wife, Diana, is a former Goldman Sachs employee.