Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. James P. McGovern and Christopher H. Smith, Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, released a bipartisan letter to Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, urging that proposed amendments to Hong Kong's extradition laws be withdrawn.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today Reps. James P. McGovern and Christopher H. Smith, Co-Chiars of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, joined a bipartisan, bicameral group of 92 lawmakers urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to support a repaid transfer of power to a civilin-led transitional government in Sudan.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Reps. James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) released a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, signed by 32 Members of Congress, urging the Trump Administration to promptly implement key legislation passed by Congress to guide United States policy on Tibet.

Washington, D.C. -- Co-Chairs Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) issued a statement welcoming, with guarded optimism, the news that Sudanese President and longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir has been ousted and call for calm to prevail, and calling the formation of an inclusive interim, civilian government, and a transition to democracy.

Washington, D.C. - Today Reps. James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ), Co-Chairs of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, with U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter urging the Trump Administration to swiftly impose Global Magnitsky Act sanctions against Chen Quanguo, Xinjiang Communist Party Secretary and Politburo Member Secretary, and other high-ranking Chinese officials complicit in gross human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, China.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen James P. McGovern (D-MA) and Randy Hultgren (R-IL), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives, today released a letter to President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urging him to ensure that the Congolese people are able to participate freely and fully in upcoming national elections and to peacefully express their reactions to the results, including through legal recourse as well as public protests and other forms of nonviolent expression and assembly.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressmen James P. McGovern and Randy Hultgren, Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in the U.S. House of Representatives, and ten other Members of Congress today released a letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico congratulating him on his new office and expressing continued support for strong cooperation between the United States and Mexico based on mutual respect and shared interests.