Honorable Tom Lantos
U.S. Representative, California, Democrat
Tom Lantos was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980. He is chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The following is from Representative Lantos’s statement during an October 10, 2007, hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on H. Res. 106, the Affirmation of the United States Record on the Armenian Genocide. Today, we are not considering whether the Armenian peoplewere persecuted and died in huge numbers at the hands of Ottoman troops in theearly twentieth century. There is unanimity in the Congress and across thecountry that these atrocities took place. If the resolution before…
