CONNECTICUT BECOMES 5TH STATE IN UNANIMOUS CONGRESSIONAL SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.05.2007 14:16 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Connecticut becomes 5th state in unanimous
congressional support for H. Res. 106 on recognizing the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 perpetrate by the Ottoman Turkey. Congressmen John
Larson, Joseph Courtney, and Christopher Murphy, the Connecticut
delegation now unanimously supports the Armenian Genocide resolutions
in the Senate and House of Representatives, the Armenian National
Committee of America (ANCA) reports. Senator Christopher Dodd,
Senator Joseph Lieberman, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and Congressman
Christopher Shay, were all original cosponsors of S. Res. 106 and
H. Res. 106. Currently, the New England states of Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont have 20 of 22
Representatives signed on to H. Res. 106, and nine of twelve Senators
signed on to S.