Honorable Tom Lantos
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Tom Lantos was firstelected to the U.S.House of Representatives in 1980. He is chair of the House Committee on ForeignAffairs. The following is from Representative Lantos’s statement during aSeptember 10, 2007, joint hearing of the House Armed Services and House ForeignAffairs committees on the Iraqreport presented by General David Petraeus and Admiral Ryan Crocker. Our witnesses have been sent here this morning to restore credibility to a discredited policy. We and the American people already know that the situation in Iraq is grim, and a growing majority of this Congress and of the American people want our troops out. …
