Nancy Pelosi: “Madam Speaker, you know that the House, not only the House, the Congress, the country, has lost one of its most talented…”

“Madam Speaker, you know that the House, not only the House, the Congress, the country, has lost one of its most talented leaders, and the world, indeed the world, has lost one of its greatest champions for human rights with the passing of Chairman Tom Lantos. He was a statesman, he was a gentleman, and he will be deeply missed. As the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to Congress, Tom Lantos devoted his public life to shining a bright light on the dark corners of oppression.”