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Chris Smith: Congressman Chris Smith, and the late chairman of this committee, Congressman Tom Lantos--himself a Holocaust…

On the recordNovember 1, 2011
Congressman Chris Smith, and the late chairman of this committee, Congressman Tom Lantos--himself a Holocaust survivor--convened a hearing in 2006 in which they publicly challenged Yahoo to look behind the bottom line and consider the moral implications of their complicity, their complicity in imprisoning Chinese dissidents.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith recalls a hearing challenging Yahoo's role in human rights abuses in China.

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