"I am very pleased that these tapes were found and are being shown, " Lantos said.
Lantos, who was serving his 14th term in the House, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in December.
The Hungarian-born Lantos came to the United States in 1947 after surviving a forced-labor camp in his Nazi-allied homeland.
And Congressman Lantos, do you expect a showdown with Iran this year, say?
Rep. LANTOS: Well, I think sending a message may not be so bad.
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TOM LANTOS (D-CA): I want to thank my friend from Michigan.
The ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, Tom Lantos, describes this as a defining moment in bilateral relations.
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She had a childhood sweetheart, a very precocious young man named Tom Lantos, whom she met when she was six.
Rep. Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, agreed, citing his "horror and disgust" with what is depicted on the tapes.
Mr Lantos has added an amendment to an aid bill requiring President George Bush to prepare a strategy within 45 days to improve internal security in Afghanistan.
Rep. LANTOS: Well, mind reading has never been my specialty.
Representative TOM LANTOS (Democrat, California): No I do not.
Lantos' life was "defined by courage, optimism, and unwavering dedication to his principles and to his family, " said his wife, Annette, his childhood sweetheart, in a statement the House of Representatives released.
"It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a member of Congress, " Lantos said in a statement at the time.
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