Tom Lantos: “Jo Ann Davis was respected and admired across the total political spectrum... she was also one of the great Atlantises…”

“Jo Ann Davis was respected and admired across the total political spectrum... she was also one of the great Atlantises in this body. She was passionately committed to rebuilding the alliance between Europe and the United States, and she did an extraordinary job over a long period of time successfully doing this. My predecessor, Henry Hyde, and I had many conversations about her little-noticed, but enormously important, work on behalf of our effective foreign policy, on behalf of rebuilding so many of the ties that over the years had been weakened by a variety of actions. Jo Ann will be missed in all of her endeavors, but those of us on the Foreign Affairs Committee will particularly miss her enormous contribution to building alliances for the United States, for being a multilateralist, for recognizing that while we may be the one remaining superpower, we are a superpower in need of allies and friends and collaborators.”