US CONGRESSMAN OPPOSING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION DIES AT 77

Panorama.am
14:14 09/02/2010

Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), the chairman of the powerful subcommittee
that controls Pentagon spending of the House of the Representatives
died at 77 at Virginia Hospital Center from complications of
gallbladder surgery.

Turkish Zaman recalls that the Democrat always led attacks against
the Armenian Genocide Resolution in the US Congress.

For example, Murtha called a press conference and urged the House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to put the resolution to vote at the House
of Representatives plenary session after the resolution was sponsored
by more than half of the full House Foreign Affairs Committee in 2007.

Panorama.am recalls that US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman,
Howard Berman (D-CA), a leading Congressional supporter of human
rights has scheduled a vote of his panel on the Armenian Genocide
Resolution, H.Res.252, for March 4. H.Res.252, introduced in March
of 2009 by lead sponsors Adam Schiff and George Radanovich (R-CA),
and Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
and Mark Kirk (R-IL), currently has over 135 cosponsors.