Tom Lantos

What's At Stake

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, President Bill Clinton, Child Abuse, Human Rights, Hillary Clinton 2008, Children, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, President Obama, Sex Trade, Hillary Clinton, Sex Trafficking, Tom Lantos, State Department, Rep-James-Mcgovern, Human Trafficking, Politics News
Conchita Sarnoff

Washington D.C. -- The hearing on "Human Trafficking: International and National Implications" took place March 25, 2010 in Congress at the Rayburn Ho...

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Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Sponsors House Hearing on Child Trafficking

Conchita Sarnoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Commission, Drug Cartels, Thomas Friedman, Undocumented Immigrants, Human Slavery, Children, Washington DC, Tom Lantos, Immigration, Sexual Assault, Sexual Slavery, Mexican Drug Cartels, Immigration Reform, Television, Child Abuse, Child Trafficking, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Slavery, Child Slavery, Immigration Debate, David Sarnoff, Politics News
Conchita Sarnoff

In order to undertake the darker side of immigration reform, such as child trafficking, lawmakers must create a sustainable budget and measurement system that collates factual data and statistics.

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U.S. Congressmember Carolyn Maloney on Abhorrent Anti-Gay Legislation in Uganda

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Upper East Side, Lgbt, Hiv, Tammy Baldwin, Roosevelt Island, Pepfar, Benefit for Haiti, Thought Leaders, Carolyn B. Maloney, LGBT Caucus, Global Citizens, Albany, U.S. House of Representatives Human Rights Commission, Gay, Webster Hall, Manhattan, Anti-Homosexuality Bill, U.S. Congress, Micah Kellner, Washington Post, John Lee, Clif Maloney, Bisexual, Transgendered, Uganda Parliament, Uganda, East Village, Tom Lantos, Barack Obama, Harvey Milk, New York City, Congressional Human Rights Commission, Lesbian, Anti-Gay Legislation, HIV Prevention, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Global Citizenship Award, New York State Assembly, Orphans International Worldwide, Politics News
Jim Luce

On Thought Leaders and Global Citizens. U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, representing Manhattan's Upper East Side, Roosevelt Island, and Wester...

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FBI Whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress 'Bribed, Blackmailed'

Brad Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Douglas Feith, Turkey, Valerie Plame Wilson, Lobbyists, Roy Blunt, Ohio, State Secrets, Sibel Edmonds, Dan Burton, Fbi, Valerie Plame, Blackmail, Tom Lantos, Bribery, Armenian Genocide, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Whistleblowers, Nuclear Weapons, National Security, State Secrets Privilege, Marc Grossman, Stephen Solarz, Jean Schmidt, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Brad Friedman

The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.

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The Creatures' Caucus

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Animals, Elton Gallegly, Chris Shays, Tom Lantos, Jim Moran, Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, Green News
Michael Markarian

Jim Moran and Elton Gallegly announced today that they will co-chair the newly formed Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, working with The HSUS and HSLF to take lawmaking for animals to the next level.

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Israel May Retaliate Against Turkey by Recognizing the Armenian Genocide

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Turkey, Capitol Hill, Gaza Israel, Jerusalem, Washington, Kurdistan, Olmert, Tzipi Livni, Majalli Whbee, Tom Lantos, Ankara, Congress, Local Elections, Knesset, Hamas, Armenian Genocide, Jerusalem Post, Erdogan, Tel Aviv, Pkk, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, Genocide Resolution, Debkafile, Hurriyet, World News
Harut Sassounian

Enraged by the abrasive tone of Turkey's condemnation of Israel's attack on Gaza, Israeli officials and Turkish analysts are now raising the possibility that Tel Aviv may retaliate.

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Herd on the Hill

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farming, John Campbell, Chris Shays, Horses, Tom Lantos, Canada, America's Next Top Model, Prop 2, Animals, Farm Animals, Seal Hunt, Bob Filner, California, Susan Collins, Proposition 2, Nigel Barker, Carl Levin, Horse Slaughter, Elton Gallegly, Animal Cruelty, Seals, Atlantic Coast, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Passage of this modest, but crucial, ballot measure in California will surely change the calculus for farm animals elsewhere by demonstrating that Americans have no tolerance for gratuitous cruelty.

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Sheltering Animals from the Storm

Michael Markarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pets, The Humane Society, Emergency, Ted Stevens, Louisiana, Gustav, Humane Society, Hanna, Texas, Tom Lantos, Christopher Shays, Animals, Frank Lautenberg, Disasters, Humane Society of the United States, Ike, Katrina, Hurricane, Politics News
Michael Markarian

Led by Senators Ted Stevens and Frank Lautenberg, and Reps. Tom Lantos and Chris Shays, the PETS Act set national policy on how to deal with animals in disasters in a post-Katrina environment.

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Congress Bows To Big Oil In Burma

The Washington Independent | Mike Lillies | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Lantos, Congress, Chevron, Burma, Big Oil, Business News

Caving to big oil demands, the Senate on Tuesday approved a plan that intensifies trade sanctions against Burma's military regime but abandons an earl...

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Nico Pitney

House In Chaos After Republicans Force Vote During Lantos Memorial

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miers Bolten Contempt, Tom Lantos Dies, Tom Lantos, Rep. Tom Lantos, Lantos Funeral, Tom Lantos Memorial Service, Lantos Memorial Service, Video, Politics News

"During what was supposed to be a somber memorial service in Statuary Hall for Rep. Tom Lantos, who died Monday, the House chamber became mired in cha...

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Radio Host Savage: Rep. Lantos Used Holocaust "As A Weapon"

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Lantos Dies, Michael Savage, Tom Lantos, Rep. Tom Lantos, Tom Lantos and Holocaust, Michael Savage Holocaust, Michael Savage Tom Lantos, Politics News

Discussing the death of Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) on his radio show yesterday, conservative talker Michael Savage said he "detested" Lantos. Savage calle...

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US Announces Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia

Associated Press | MATTHEW LEE and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Saudi Arabia Al-Qaida, Warwire, War on Terror, Saudi Arabia, George W. Bush, Bush Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Arms Sale, Tom Lantos, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Politics News

The Democratic-led Congress is unlikely to block U.S. plans to sell $123 million worth of sophisticated precision-guided bomb technology to Saudi Arab...

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Top Dem Rips Yahoo Over Dissident Arrest In China

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Lantos, Yahoo, Politics News

A House committee chairman Monday angrily rejected Yahoo Inc.'s explanation for why it provided incomplete information to Congress about its role in t...

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Rep. Lantos Blasts Yahoo Execs: "Morally, You Are Pgymies"

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Lantos, Shi Tao, Michael Callahan, Jerry Yang, Yahoo Inc, Yahoo Lawsuit, Business News

Two top Yahoo Inc. officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from law...

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Yahoo In Legal Hot Seat For Cooperating With Chinese Gov't

Forbes | Brian Wingfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yahoo, Tom Lantos, Yahoo China, Michael Callahan, Jerry Yang, Yahoo Lawsuit, Business News

Somebody at Yahoo! has got some explaining to do. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif., wants to know why...

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