HOUSE PANEL TO CONSIDER ARMENIAN MEASURE

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY
Oct 3 2007

A House committee will vote on a resolution recognizing the Ottoman
massacres of Armenians as genocide.

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the Jewish congressman who has
initiated the nonbinding resolution on the 1915-16 atrocities,
announced Tuesday that the full House of Representatives Foreign
Affairs Committee would consider the resolution on Oct. 10.

Attempts in previous Congresses to consider similar resolutions have
been frustrated by parliamentary maneuvers, but Rep. Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.), the House speaker, has pledged to bring it to a full vote.

The resolution has the sponsorship of a majority of House members and
is likely to pass if it comes to the floor. The Turkish government
has pledged consequences to the Turkish-U.S. alliance should the
resolution pass, and Turkish Jews and Israeli government officials
have lobbied against it.

A number of Jewish groups oppose the measure, but others have voiced
support.