Tom Lantos

Congress Bows To Big Oil In Burma

The Washington Independent | Mike Lillies | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


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...

If Life Gives You Lemons, Don't Drink the Kool-Aid

Tom Gregory | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics


Tom Gregory

Congressman Jackie Speier's the Barack Obama of moms with a lot of Bette Davis school-of-hard-knocks thrown in. She is expected to be a leader for change in America starting today.

Nico Pitney

House In Chaos After Republicans Force Vote During Lantos Memorial

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics


"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...

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

Think Progress | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics


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

Uniting the Two Americas, and a Remembrance of Tom Lantos

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Harold Pollack

Given John Edwards' slashing attacks on Sen. Clinton, one would expect him to endorse Obama or no one. Politics being what it is, one would be foolish to predict.

Tom Lantos Dies

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

I had recently met with him a few times and saw him moving increasingly in support of a serious US role in Israel-Palestine negotiations.

US Announces Arms Sale To Saudi Arabia

Associated Press | MATTHEW LEE and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 01.14.2008 | Politics


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...

Representative Tom Lantos: "True Blue and White"

Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics


Sam Sedaei

The domestic lobbies' influence on policy process is rarely investigated by the media because of the media's own lack of impartiality. So it takes us citizens to do the job of looking at raw data and following the money.

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

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business


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...

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

Forbes | Brian Wingfield | Posted 11.06.2007 | Business


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

Top Dem Rips Yahoo Over Dissident Arrest In China

AP | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics


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

Deciding to Be Human

John Brady Kiesling | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics


John Brady Kiesling

Most of us applaud the efforts of the UN to impose a universal code of behavior. But international law is not always compatible with our more Homeric instincts.


 

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