[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 55 (Wednesday, April 21, 1999)]
[House]
[Page H2206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

  (Mr. RADANOVICH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Rogan); the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. 
Bonior); the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pallone), and a bipartisan 
group of legislators in introducing a resolution to bring together all 
the U.S. records on the Armenian Genocide and to provide this 
collection to the House Committee on International Relations, the U.S. 
Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan, 
Armenia.
  U.S. archives contain extensive documentation of the widespread 
opposition to Ottoman Turkey's brutal massacres and deportations. They 
contain, as well, records of the unprecedented efforts of the American 
people to bring relief to the survivors of this, the century's first 
genocide.
  In introducing this legislation, we challenge those who would deny 
genocide, past or present.
  Please add your name today as a cosponsor of this legislation and 
join with me at the Armenian National Committee's Genocide Observance 
being held this evening at the Rayburn House Office Building.

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