Tom Lantos News

WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch to a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in ...

WASHINGTON - The House voted Thursday to triple money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world, giving new life and new punch to a program credited with saving or prolonging millions of lives in ...

Well, once again someone has come up with an explanation for another of Senator Obama's statements that, on the surface, are rank falsehoods.

WASHINGTON, July 24 HIV-AIDS-legislation WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - The landmark U.S. effort to fight HIV/AIDS around the world will be expanded and extended by five years thanks to legislation that ...

Barack Obama today boasted about a bill in "my committee,'' a committee on which he has no seat.

A MODEL APPOINTEE: The California Horse Racing Board, which oversees Bay Meadows and other racetracks around the state, isn't a hotbed of glamour, as public bodies go.

Former Sen. Jesse Helms might have had a personal evolution when it came to AIDS policy, but the journey wasn't far enough to keep activists from crying foul when his successor tried to name a global AIDS ...

This Saturday, July 19th Congresswoman Jackie Speier will be conducting her first Town Hall Meeting in Pacifica, since being sworn into office on April 10, 2008, after winning the special election that was held ...

Via Atomic Gay Wonk comes word that North Carolina GOP Senator Elizabeth Dole wants to strike the late lawmaker Henry Hyde's name from an AIDS bill before the Senate and replace it with that of homophobic AIDS- ...

On Saturday, July 19th Congresswoman Jackie Speier will be conducting her first Town Hall Meeting in Pacifica, since being sworn into office on April 10, 2008, after winning the special election that was held ...

California's newest member of Congress is proposing a new national speed limit of 60 miles per hour.

And that's put Chevron Corp., the largest U.S. investor in that country, in the crosshairs.

Jim McGovern and Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny to replace the late Congressman Tom Lantos, the Co-Founder of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, as the new Co-Chair, the AAA reports.

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The director of UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library spoke with Lantos about housing his personal archives in January, when the 14-term Democratic congressman disclosed he was suffering from cancer of the esophagus.

By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations BERKELEY - The papers of the late Tom Lantos of California, a leading champion of human rights and the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress, are now part of ...

Sen. Charles Schumer says he wants to ensure that a final bill includes a revocation on a tax credit for Chevron.

UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library will house the archives of the late Rep. Tom Lantos, the San Mateo Democrat and Holocaust survivor who died in February.

At the White House on Thursday, President Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people behind a triumph of his administration, a program to fight the global AIDS pandemic.

June 19, 2008: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, right, wears a Silberman for President button as he attends a ceremony for the 2008 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room at the ...