House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-VA., praised passage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act on Thursday and criticized House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for deriding it.

“We have to start somewhere,” Cantor said during an interview on Special Report with Bret Baier. “For Nancy Pelosi to make the comments she did, make a comments to a man or woman that benefits from this bill and can start up a new business, by the way, if she would like to say those comments to the people who actually get a job because of this bill, you know, I think she would get a different reaction.”

Unlike all of the other jobs bills passed by House Republicans, the one passed Thursday is the first with support from President Obama.

Cantor expressed optimism that the House could continue to work successfully with a president from the opposing party, despite the odds of election-year politics.

“That is why today is the first step what I hope is both sides learning to put aside their differences and come together where we can,” Cantor said.

Touching on the issue of rising gas prices, Cantor said the Obama administration’s policies hindered the potential for increased domestic energy production...