Congressman Tom Lantos

For Immediate Release October 6, 2011 2011 Lantos Prize to be awarded in November WASHINGTON, DC – The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice is proud to announce that Rwandan humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina will be the 2011 recipient of the Lantos Human Rights Prize. The formal presentation of the award will take place in Washington, DC on November 16th, 2011. Paul Rusesabagina is widely hailed as a hero of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. As a hotel manager during the time of the...Read Full Story

Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) died today at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was 80, and a survivor of the Holocaust. The Washington Post reports : "Lantos, born in Budapest to Hungarian Jews, served 14 terms in the House of Representatives. He is the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress. His district included southwest San Francisco and much of San Mateo County, where he was known for supporting the socially liberal agenda...Read Full Story

Democrat Tom Lantos, a key voice in Congress on US foreign affairs died on Monday. Lantos' representatives say he was surrounded by his family when he died Monday morning in Bethesda naval hospital north of Washington. Lantos served as representative from California since 1980. He also chaired the chamber's Foreign Affairs committee. When he announced his diagnosis, Lantos, expressed his "profoundly felt gratitude to this great country." "It is only in the United States that a...Read Full Story

WASHINGTON D.C. — Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died. He was 80. more HERERead Full Story

Dutch Lawmakers Offended by Rep. Lantos Saturday October 27, 2007 9:01 AM By DESMOND BUTLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that ``Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.'' Lantos, a...Read Full Story