Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today announced that “he will not seek re-election this year because he has cancer of the esophagus.” Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, is serving his 14th term in Congress.
UPDATE: Read Lantos’s full statement here.
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