Tom Lantos

Minnesota GOP chair Ron Carey calls Rep. Keith Ellison’s arrest during a Darfur protest Monday “unbecoming” of the office. But Ellison and his fellow protesters weren’t alone: Their action comes almost exactly three years after a similar set of arrests by Democratic legislators over the same issue – and nearly five years after a unanimous House vote declared the killing in Darfur “genocide.” Given the lack of change in Darfur, who can blame him for waiting around for more “becoming” methods?

Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will not seek reelection after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

Lantos, who was born in Budapest, Hungary, is the only survivor of the Holocaust elected to Congress.  He was first elected to Congress in 1980. 

Lantos was a supporter of the Iraq war initially, [...]