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Rep. Tom Lantos Passes Away »

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Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday. Lynne Weill said that Lantos, 80, passed away at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland. Tom Lantos, a Democrat who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed last month that he had been diagnosed