Tom Lantos: “I welcome this critical step, writing a final chapter to one of mankind's most ominous events.”

I rise today to join this commemoration of the extraordinary life of Henry Hyde, the late, able chairman of the House International Relations Committee. The United States House of Representatives lost an institutional legend this year, and…

The veneer of civilization is paper thin. We are its guardians, and we can never rest.

I would like to say a word comparing our Speaker to the subject of this resolution, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These are two extraordinary women of deep courage and commitment, but there is one profound difference in their political lives: when…

The nightmare that is unfolding in Gaza is in no small measure the responsibility of the Government of Egypt. Egypt has a huge military, and it boggles the mind to assume that the Egyptian military would not have been able to seal Gaza…