SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON AND SENATE MAJORITY LEADER HARRY REID COSPONSOR ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
ArmRadio.am
19.04.2007 11:22
Two of the US most prominent Senators – Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-NV) and leading 2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
– agreed to cosponsor S.Res.106, the Armenian Genocide Resolution,
reports the Armenian National Committee of America.
"We’re very gratified that two prominent national leaders – Hillary
Clinton and Harry Reid – agreed today to join with a growing number
of their Senate colleagues in supporting the passage of the Armenian
Genocide Resolution," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. "As
the growth in cosponsors demonstrates, this anti-genocide measure
clearly enjoys the support of a broad, bipartisan majority in both
houses of Congress."
The Senate resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide was introduced
last month by Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) and
Senator John Ensign (R-NV). The measure is a companion to US House
resolution, H.Res.106, introduced by Representatives Adam Schiff
(D-CA), George Radanovich (R-CA), Congressional Armenian Caucus
Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), and Foreign
Affairs Committee members Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Thaddeus McCotter
(R-MI). With the addition this week of Tim Bishop (D-NY), Bruce Braley
(D-IA), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Duncan Hunter
(R-CA), David Reichart (R-WA), John Salazar (D-CO), and Tom Tancredo
(R-CO), the House measure currently has over 190 cosponsors.
Joining Senators Durbin and Ensign as cosponsors of the Armenian
Genocide resolution are Wayne Allard (R-CO), Barbara Boxer (D-CA),
Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Hillary Clinton (D-NY),
Norm Coleman (R-MN), Susan Collins (R-ME), Christopher Dodd (D-CT),
Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), Russell Feingold (D-WI), Dianne Feinstein
(D-CA), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Edward Kennedy (D-MA), John Kerry (D-MA),
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI),
Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Robert Menendez
(D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), Harry Reid (D-NV), Ken Salazar (D-CO),
Charles Schumer (D-NY), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI),
John Sununu (R-NH), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).
In a powerful speech on the Senate floor, Senator Bararba Boxer, a
long-standing and energetic champion of Armenian Genocide recognition,
stressed that she is "proud to be an original co-sponsor of Senator
Richard Durbin’s Senate Resolution 106. The California legislator,
speaking to her Senate colleagues, argued forcefully that, "We must
recognize the genocide because it’s the right thing to do. We must
recognize the Armenian Genocide to help shed light on the darkness
and move toward a more humane world."