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As is customary when a known person dies, it is appropriate to look back on their record and consider their legacy. Though the legacy of Lantos, unfortunately, may turn out to have a permanent impact on the future, as is often the case, he will not be around to face the consequences of his "misguided" activism and policies. Aleksandra Rebic CONGRESSMAN TOM LANTOS ON THE OUTLOOK FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF KOSOVA (The Islamic Spelling of Serbia's Kosovo.) HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION APRIL 17, 2007 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE...

Congressman Tom Lantos of California has died. Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress. His spokeswoman says he died early Monday morning. Lynne Weill said that Lantos, 80, passed away at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland.

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced on Wednesday that he will not seek re-election this year because he has cancer of the esophagus. Lantos, 79, is the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress and is known for his dedication to human rights issues. He is serving his 14th term as a House member. "It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family, and had the privilege of serving...

Looks like former Peninsula state Sen. Jackie Speier is indeed gearing up for what promises to be a big-money and highly charged Democratic primary run next June against 13-term Rep. Tom Lantos."It's Time!" declares an e-mail circulated by supporters to "friends" and "fans" this past week, announcing the first organizing meeting of the Jackie Speier for Congress Exploratory Committee on Tuesday at a home in Hillsborough. Speier has been consulting with friends and supporters about a run since a poll conducted by allies in January showed her a 2-1 favorite among voters in the 12th Congressional District, which covers northern...

Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay." Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the prison, located on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, the lawmakers said. Mariko Peters, a member of the Dutch Green Party, who began the exchange with Lantos, said she took...

WASHINGTON - Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay." Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, was responding to arguments that the United States should shut down the prison, located on a U.S. naval base in Cuba, the lawmakers said. Mariko Peter, a member of the Dutch Green Party, who began the exchange with Lantos,...

Dennis of Damascus and Tehran Tom September 14, 2007 FrontPageMagazine.com Kenneth R. Timmerman As Democrats in Congress and the organized left denounce the cautious optimism of Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus (“General Betray Us,” according to moveon.org), some Members continue to consort with the enemy in ways reminiscent of Hanoi Jane Fonda in the early 1970s. Dennis Kucinich is the latest among the Congressional Democrats to travel the road to Damascus, to give aid and comfort to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with a tarted-up reporter for Syrian state television, Kucinich laid out his plan for...

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Did the 4 Albanian terrorists have connections to Holbrooke, Clark? May 8th, 2007 According to Bloomberg the Kosovo Albanians that were planning to kill as many Americans as possible are: Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; Eljvir Duka, 23. Agron Abdullahu, 24. Bloomberg says that: The Dukas and Abdullahu are ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia [read: Muslim-dominated Kosovo], U.S. officials said. The Duka brothers operated roofing businesses based in Cherry Hill… and Abdullahu worked at a supermarket, according to authorities. Now, the New Jersey is stone throw from New York where the big-dog in the roofing business among the...

This is the firt-ever open meeting between the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Internatinal Affairs of the Duma, the legislature of the Russian Federation. Discussion topics include: unresolved regional conflicts, humanitarian issues, and trade and economic issuses. 6/21/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 35 min

A leading Democratic lawmaker lashed out at the former leaders of Germany and France, calling former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a `political prostitute.' Germany denounced the remarks by Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as an insult to its people. Lantos' comments about Schroeder and former French President Jacques Chirac, both opponents of the Iraq war, came in a speech Tuesday at the dedication of a monument to victims of communism... "I am so glad that the era of Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder in Germany is now gone," Lantos said to applause. He said when...

Washington (dpa) - Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's close business ties to Russia amount to ``political prostitution'' that would even offend people who sell their bodies for money, a top US congressman said on Tuesday. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor who chairs the House of Representatives committee on foreign affairs, attacked both Shroeder and former French president Jacques Chirac for failing to support the United States in its 2003 war in Iraq. Speaking at the dedication ceremony for a victims of communism memorial in Washington, Lantos said he would like to call Schroeder ``a political prostitute, now that he's taking...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran. ... Lantos noted that "with the speaker's support,'' he has co-sponsored legislation in the House that calls for making available to all countries -- including Iran -- nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes under international oversight by establishing a "nuclear fuel bank." "So if the Iranian president says that he is developing (nuclear material) for...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, fresh from a controversial trip to Syria last week, has "no intention" of visiting Iran, her office said Wednesday, as the White House condemned any such plan. "The Speaker has no intention of going to Iran," Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said by e-mail after a senior lawmaker and close ally who accompanied her to Damascus seemed to float the idea in a press conference. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino had said earlier that, with fresh US charges that Iran is helping to kill US forces in Iraq, "it's troubling that some Democrats...

**SNIP** Pelosi and Lantos went over to Syria for one purpose, and that was to undermine United States foreign policy. That's why they went, and that is what they did, and now they are responding to criticism by claiming they really went over there to celebrate all the religious holidays, to carry the president's message and so forth. But she is lying about it, and Lantos let the cat out of the bag because he admitted that they were there establishing an alternative Democrat foreign policy, which means he admits that the Democrats are attempting to undermine established US foreign...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, just back from a trip to Syria that sparked sharp criticism from Republicans and the Bush administration, suggested Tuesday that they may be interested in taking another diplomatic trip - to open a dialogue with Iran. The Democratic speaker from San Francisco and Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, were asked at a press conference in San Francisco Tuesday whether on the heels of their recent trip to the Middle East they would be interested in extending their diplomacy in the troubled region with a visit to Iran....

CAIRO, Egypt - A top U.S. Democratic congressman met a leading member of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, an outlawed opposition group, during a recent visit to the country, the Islamic fundamentalist group and U.S. officials said Saturday. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record) met with the Muslim Brotherhood's parliament leader, Mohammed Saad el-Katatni, twice on Thursday — once at the parliament building and then at the home of the U.S. ambassador to Egypt, said Brotherhood spokesman Hamdi Hassan. U.S. Embassy spokesman John Berry would only confirm that Hoyer, who represents Maryland, met with el-Katatni at U.S. Ambassador Francis...

SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- A senior U.S. congressman is planning to visit North Korea in a month or two, a Washington-based radio station reported Saturday, saying he is also seeking to meet the country's reclusive leader. Radio Free Asia quoted an aide to Rep. Tom Lantos, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as saying the congressman is likely to visit Pyongyang in May. Lantos has requested a meeting with the North's leader Kim Jong-il during the trip, but there has been no response from the North Korean government yet, it said. The Democrat from California has been...

Washington -- Bush administration criticism of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria this week is "hypocritical beyond belief,'' San Mateo Rep. Tom Lantos said Friday as he and the speaker prepared to return home from their nine-day trip with a congressional delegation to the Mideast. Lantos, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the criticism from President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other administration officials and allies, was particularly out of line because Republican House members also met Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus just before and after the delegation led by the Democratic speaker. "The notion that...

April 3, 2007 Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy." Democrats can have any foreign policy they want -- if and when they are elected to the White House. Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and -- like him or not -- he alone had the constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime. All that...

"U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Damascus next week for talks with Syrian officials, a U.S. Embassy official said Friday, making her the highest-ranking American politician to come to Syria since relations began souring in 2003. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Pelosi would be leading a delegation of members of Congress and would arrive on Tuesday and leave Wednesday."

Moscow (CNSNews.com) - Amid a continuing diplomatic row over missile defense, Russian officials have welcomed a call by a senior U.S. Democratic lawmaker to abandon a measure linking trade with human rights whose existence has long irked the Kremlin. The survival of the Cold War-era measure known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment is "mere nonsense," Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament, said Wednesday. He added that Washington had long promised to scrap the amendment but had yet to do so. The Jackson-Vanik amendment to the 1974 Trade Act links normal U.S. trade relations...

Boston (CNSNews.com) - Without a formidable Republican opponent in his U.S. Senate race, Barack Obama has little reason not to take money from billionaire liberal financier George Soros, a man other Democrats keep at a distance. ...Obama, however, is different from most Democrats because of his willingness to embrace the controversial Soros. Shortly after Soros equated the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Obama joined him for a New York fund-raiser June 7.Little has been made of his connection to Soros, although it is quite unique. Not only did George Soros donate...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A key U.S. legislator said in Israel on Sunday he would block aid President George W. Bush promised Lebanon and free the funds only when Beirut agreed to the deployment of international troops on the border with Syria. "The international community must use all our available means to stiffen Lebanon's spine and to convince the government of Lebanon to have the new UNIFIL troops on the Syrian border in adequate numbers," said Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives' International Relations Committee. Lantos said he was putting a legislative hold on Bush's proposal...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Even as U.S. President George W. Bush's administration avoids contacts with Iran, a lone Democratic congressman is cultivating his own dialogue with the Islamic state. Rep. Tom Lantos, an influential lawmaker who could end up running the International Relations Committee if Democrats retake the U.S. House of Representatives in November, said he has met Iran's UN ambassador Javad Zarif at the envoy's New York home twice in 2006 -- once for dinner and once for lunch. The meetings were initiated by Lantos of California, a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. He also had contacts with Iran's UN...

House and Senate Democratic leaders have joined together to urge President Bush to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq this year. The move is part of an effort to shake the notion that Democrats are split on the Iraq war and keep the focus on what they see as a winning issue against Republicans. Twelve Democrats, including the Senate and House minority leaders and ranking members of key committees, wrote President Bush on Sunday about the matter. "In the interests of American national security, our troops and our taxpayers, the open-ended commitment in Iraq that you have embraced cannot...

Senior lawmaker Tom Lantos is as passionate in his support to India as in his antagonism for Iran. The two dispositions come into periodic conflict. It was the same on Wednesday when one saw the co-author of the nuclear deal legislation momentarily join the ranks of the bill’s foremost critic, Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey. Indian supporters watching the proceedings of the House of Representatives held their breath as Lantos came out in support of Markey’s motion to add a new paragraph virtually making the deal conditional on India’s “full and active” participation in US efforts to dissuade, isolate and possibly...

WASHINGTON - Five Congress members were willingly arrested and led away from the Sudanese Embassy in plastic handcuffs Friday in protest of the Sudanese government's role in atrocities in the Darfur region. "The slaughter of the people of Darfur must end," Rep. Tom Lantos (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., a Holocaust survivor who founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, said from the embassy steps before his arrest. Four other Democratic Congress members — James McGovern and John Olver of Massachusetts, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas and Jim Moran of Virginia — were among 11 protesters arrested on charges of disorderly...

29.11.05 | Hugo Chavez's spinmeisters love to sing the mantra "Venezuela wants to have the most cordial relations with the USA, based in mutual respect and understanding..." Well, how does the barring a BIPARTISAN US Congressional Delegation, from entering Venezuela, bodes with the aforementioned predicament? It was not enough, for Chavez, to have orchestrated with Kirchner, riots and the subsequent media attack on Bush in Mar del Plata. Nor it was sufficient for him to call President Fox a "lapdog of the empire" -one has to love the irony in light of the dynamics of the Castro-Chavez marriage... Now the...

CARACAS -- A congressional delegation led by Rep. Henry Hyde arrived on Monday in Venezuela, but was not permitted to leave the plane at the country's main airport and left abruptly, a spokesman for the U.S. embassy said. The president of the airport, however, denied the accusation, saying the U.S. ambassador met the plane at the airport, entered it briefly, and then the craft departed. The delegation on the plane had been slated to meet with Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and other government officials, and waited for roughly one hour before departing, Brian Penn, the embassy spokesman, told...

India's vote in favour of the IAEA resolution on Iran nuclear programme was an "encouraging and significant" step which indicated the evolving nature of US-India relationship, a leading US daily on Sunday said, while warning some American officials and lawmakers against creating the appearance of having pressurised New Delhi for its stance. Asking legislators like Congressman Tom Lantos not to "brag" about 'pushing' India and advising American officials to avoid the crude appearance of a quid pro quo of Indian vote for access to US civilian nuclear technology, The Washington Times said India had surprised even the most vigilant observers...

So, just who is Tom Lantos? September 15, 2005 'We know that India has been waging a long -- and until now -- a lonely battle against terrorism... (India) has been dealing with terrorism for decades, and has paid a tremendous price in terms of human lives, lost productivity and the psychological impact on the people of India... I want to reaffirm to you that we value India as one of our most important partners and allies.'-- November 8, 2001  'They (India) will pay a heavy price for a total disregard of US concerns vis-à-vis Iran. It just will not fly...

SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- A delegation of U.S. congressmen arrived in Pyongyang on Tuesday, North Korea's state-run media said, for a visit expected to focus on ways of resuming the six-party talks on the North's nuclear weapons program. "A delegation from the U.S. Congress headed by James Leach, chairman of the Subcommittee on Asian and the Pacific Affairs of the International Relations Committee of the House of Representatives, arrived here Tuesday," the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said. The delegation, which also includes Tom Lantos (D-California), will stay in Pyongyang for three days and then visit Seoul before...

Wednesday July 6, 7:22 PM N. Korea invites U.S. congressman, New Mexico governor for visits(Kyodo) _ North Korea has invited a U.S. congressman as well as the New Mexico governor for separate visits to the country from later this week, diplomatic sources familiar with U.S.-North Korea issues said Wednesday. The trips by House of Representatives member Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, and Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will likely take place as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tours other Asian countries from Friday, the sources said. According to the sources, final arrangements were being made for Lantos...

For Immediate Release: June 14th, 2005 LEADING MEMBER OF the U.S.CONGRESS TO LEAD PROTEST AT EMBASSY OF BURMA PHOTO OPPORTUNITY, WASHINGTON, DC JUNE 17TH AT 10:00 AM   For More Information, Contact: Lynne Weil, (202) 225-6735 Office of Congressman Tom Lantos Jeremy Woodrum (202) 246-7924 US Campaign for Burma Tom Lantos, Top Democrat on International Relations Committee, To Deliver 6,000 Birthday Cards Demanding Release of World's Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Aung San Suu Kyi  (Washington, DC)  Tom Lantos (D-CA), the ranking member on the House International Relations Committee, will lead a protest in front of the Embassy...

WASHINGTON (June 11) - A musician long before she became an academic and then a world-famous diplomat, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice took to the Kennedy Center concert stage Saturday to accompany a young soprano battling an often-fatal disease. Rice's rare and unpublicized appearance at the piano marked a striking departure from her routine as America's No. 1 diplomat. A pianist from the age of 3 she played a half-dozen selections to accompany Charity Sunshine, a 21-year-old singer who was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension a little more than a year ago. The soprano is a granddaughter of Rep. Tom Lantos,...

Panel backs mandate with list of reforms to be met in 2 years. Washington -- Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, narrowly lost an effort Wednesday to fend off a Republican bill to slash U.S. dues payments to the United Nations by 50 percent unless the world body completes a long list of reforms within two years. During a three-hour debate at the House International Relations Committee, Lantos and his colleagues in the Democratic minority agreed with the Republican majority that the United Nations -- rocked most recently by the Iraq oil-for-food scandal and charges that peacekeepers in the Congo...

Democrats Offer Alternate U.N. Reform Bill By NICK WADHAMS The Associated Press Tuesday, June 7, 2005; 8:39 PM UNITED NATIONS -- U.S. congressional Democrats on Tuesday sought to deflate a Republican bill that would link U.S. dues to the United Nations with reform of the world body, offering a version of their own that doesn't directly tie payments to change. The offer from U.S. Representative Tom Lantos of California would give the U.S. State Department the choice of withholding up to 50 percent of dues if the United Nations doesn't carry out reforms, Lantos spokeswoman Lynne Weil said. But it...

WASHINGTON - The senior Democrat on the House International Relations Committee said yesterday he would condition U.S. aid to the Palestinians on oil-rich Arab "deadbeats" making good on their own promised contributions. The assertion by Rep. Tom Lantos at a hearing on Middle East peace prospects drew swift endorsement from the leadoff witness, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger. "I think it is reasonable that the surrounding Arab states that have resources should at least match U.S. support," Kissinger said. Lantos said he backed President George W. Bush's request that Congress double to $350 million U.S. aid to the Palestinians...

U.S. President George Bush yesterday hosted at the White House two Israeli-Russian businessmen involved in the Yukos oil major who are wanted by Moscow for alleged tax offenses. Mikhail Brudno and Vladimir Dubov, both shareholders in the giant Russian oil enterprise Yukos, were invited to a White House breakfast as guests of Congressmen Tom Lantos and Christopher Cox, Israel’s Haaretz daily reported. But U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow said that Brudno and Dubov are staying in the United States legally and cannot be arrested. “They are both, as I understand it, dual citizens of Israel and Russia, and they...

BEIJING (AP) - A U.S. congressman traveling North Korea Saturday said he will discuss the communist regime's nuclear program and human rights issues during talks with officials of the secretive communist nation. The trip by Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, comes with a similar visit in the works by Rep. Curt Weldon, a Pennsylvania Republican who announced plans to travel with a bipartisan delegation earlier this week. "I anticipate meeting with North Korean officials, discussing about the nuclear program, hopefully their reintegration into the international community," Lantos said at Beijing's airport while waiting to...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos expressed confidence Monday in U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan but predicted the world body will have to clean house over allegations of corruption in the U.N.-administered oil-for-food program in Iraq. Lantos, the only survivor of the Holocaust in Congress, also said he was appalled by reports of opposition by some Arab countries to the call by the United States to hold a special session on Jan. 24 to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Such opposition, the Hungarian-born Lantos said, "reflects hysterical and mindless venom, which is...

Former American fugitive Marc Rich was a middleman for several of Iraq's suspect oil deals in February 2001, just one month after his pardon from President Clinton, according to oil industry shipping records obtained by ABC News. And a U.S. criminal investigation is looking into whether Rich, as well as several other prominent oil traders, made illegal payments to Iraq in order to obtain the lucrative oil contracts. "Without that kind of middleman, the system would not work because the major oil companies did not want to deal with Iraq because there was a mandated kickback," said human rights investigator...

A controversial resolution on independence for Serbia's southern province of Kosovo has been withdrawn from the US Congress House International Relations Committee. The resolution had been proposed by Committee Chairman Henry Hyde and deputy Tom Lantosh. B92 learnt this morning from the office of the Serbian president that it was withdrawn after the State Department intervened.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A California Republican congressman introduced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would allow Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to run for president. But he insisted the candidate he really wants to see is a 76-year-old House Democrat from Hungary. "There are those here today who will interpret this constitutional proposal permitting naturalized citizens to serve as president as a political ploy," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, an early supporter of Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial bid, said in remarks prepared for the House floor. "This is no ploy. I honestly believe that Tom Lantos should be able to seek the highest office in the land,...

An item in Friday's Arutz-7 report is forebodingly reminiscent of a warning issued two years before Egypt's surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur 1973. Arutz-7 reported on Friday that U.S. Representative Tom Lantos (D-Ca.) warned that Egypt is building up its military in preparation for a future war with Israel. The House International Relations Committee member said that Egypt's military build-up and exercises are "ominously geared toward an Israeli enemy," and that Egypt recently supplemented its navy with 11 new battle units and other weapons procurements - despite the fact that Egypt has no serious enemies in the region....

US Congressman Warns Against Trusting Egypt 13:23 Jul 02, '04 / 13 Tammuz 5764 As Israel considers involving Egyptian troops in the aftermath of a withdrawal from Gaza, a United States Congressman warns of Egypt’s intentions. As Israel considers involving Egyptian troops in the aftermath of a withdrawal from Gaza, a United States Congressman warns of Egypt’s intentions. Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the ranking Democrat in the House International Relations Committee, says that Egypt is building up its military in preparation for a future war with Israel. He announced this week that he plans to introduce legislation that will...

<p>May 3, 2004 -- WHAT are the Congressional hearings to discover the truth about the United Nations' oil-for-food scandal? According to some of the committee's Democratic representatives, the hearings are a "misguided effort to discredit the United Nations."</p> <p>In other words - according to House Reps. Tom Lantos, Howard Berman and Gary Ackerman - it apparently doesn't matter what happened to the $2 billion worth of bribe money paid to 270 diplomats and politicians, or the $10 billion allegedly stolen by Saddam Hussein.</p>

Several days ago I was watching the House debate concerning the approval of a resolution which expressed commendation for the United States Armed Forces and Coalition forces for liberating Iraq and expressed its gratitude for their valiant service, called H. Res. 557. The more I think about this debate, the more I fume. I was struck by how utterly audacious it was of Democrats to spew forth rhetoric, suggesting Republicans were being divisive and partisan...and, alleging Republicans were using our brave soldiers for their own political gain. When I was watching the debate over this issue on C-SPAN, I was...