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Tom Lantos
California
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Lantos, 78, was born and raised in Hungary and is Congress's only Holocaust survivor.
Lantos founded the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and in 1990 became the first U.S. official to visit Albania since 1946. A strong supporter of Israel, he supported the Iraq invasion, proposed converting a quarter of military aid to Egypt to economic assistance and criticized human rights violations in China.
In 2004, Lantos persuaded the House to pass a bill suspending aid to Ethiopia and Eritrea until they settled their border dispute. He got the House to vote for $300 million in humanitarian relief in Sudan, with two-thirds targeted at Darfur.
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