The Foreign Service Journal, February 2007

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 7 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 21 he day after the midterm elections gave Democrats control of both houses of Congress for the first time in a dozen years, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif. She congratu- lated him and promised to work with him as he ascends to the chairmanship of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs (formerly the House International Relations Committee). Rice was wise to call Lantos, whom she has known since her days as a Stanford University academic, because she’ll T H E N E X T T W O Y E A R S F OREIGN P OLICY IN THE 110 TH C ONGRESS T HE NEW D EMOCRATIC MAJORITY WILL AIM FOR WHOLESALE CHANGES ON I RAQ , FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND OTHER ISSUES , BUT WILL HAVE LIMITED ROOM FOR MANEUVER . B Y G EORGE C AHLINK T Adam McCauley