Tom Lantos: “As Chairman of the State Senate Committee on Transportation, Quentin Kopp has amassed an enviable legislative record.”

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

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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…

I want to express my disgust and outrage at this arrogance which we have just heard. The previous speaker assumes that there is a monopoly of virtue and wisdom on one side. That is not the case. We have listened to our colleagues on the…