Chairman of the House or Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos, left, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 2nd left, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev, 2nd right, and his Deputy Leonid Slutsky, right, are shown during the joint meeting of the committees in Washington DC.

House or Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev, right, are shown during the joint meeting of the committees in Washington DC.

Chairman of the House or Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos, center, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev, right, are shown during the joint meeting of the committees in Washington DC.

Chairman of the House or Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos is shown during the joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs committees of US House of Representatives and Russian State Duma.

Chairman of the House or Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Tom Lantos, left, and Chairman of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Konstantin Kosachev, right, are shown during the joint meeting of the committees in Washington DC.

Joint meeting of House or Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington DC. A girl looks through the door of Congress meeting hall.