Tom Lantos: “the action of the Swiss people in this referendum was enlightened and informed”

I rise in support of H.R. 720, the Water Quality Financing Act of 2007, I would like to thank my distinguished colleague, Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, James Oberstar, and my friend from Michigan, Bart…

climate diplomacy has been sidelined under this administration to such an extent that expertise and diplomatic stability in climate negotiations is now almost absent in the Department of State. It is long, long overdue that we reinvigorate…

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…

As my colleagues pointed out, two of Israel's neighbors, Jordan and Egypt, have signed historic peace agreements with the State of Israel. And while this peace is not a full-fledged, blossoming, all-encompassing peace agreement, it…