House Foreign Affairs Chairman Lantos Dies
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos has died, his office announced Monday. Lantos, 80, had earlier announced his decision not to seek re-election this year after revealing he had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus.
The California Democrat and Holocaust survivor was a passionate crusader for international human rights and held a high-profile hearing in November to condemn Yahoo executives for the firm's connection to the imprisonment of a Chinese journalist. Read that story here.
Technology Daily reported last month that Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, has expressed interest in assuming the foreign relations post in the 111th Congress. That article can be found here.
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