ONE MORE PARLIAMENTARIAN OF ARMENIAN ORIGIN BECOMES MEMBER OF US CONGRESS

Azeri Press Agency
April 10 2008
Azerbaijan

Los-Angeles. Husniyya Hasanova-APA. Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier
has won the Special Election for the vacated United States House of
Representatives seat of late Congressman Tom Lantos and will be sworn
into office April 10, 2008, APA US bureau reports.

Speier was elected in 1998 as California State Senator. Lantos endorsed
Speier as his successor.

Speier is of Armenian and German descent. She has been the initiator
of several legislative acts on so-called "Armenian genocide" in
California Senate. She made a draft law on the legal recognition of
so-called "Armenian genocide" in 2005. She put draft law on appeals
of Armenians, who lost their properties in 1915 to the vote and the
Senate voted for the document. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed
the law in 2006 and the document came into force.

Speier is the second MP of Armenian origin elected to US Congress.

Another Congressman of Armenian origin from California is Anna
G. Eshoo.