U.S. - Armenia Relationship
Canoga Park, CA – Today, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks) addressed over 100 high school students inside the auditorium at Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Manoogian Demirdjian School, in Canoga Park. Sherman has routinely hosted town hall meetings for high school students during his time in Congress.
WASHINGTON – In a 23 to 22 vote, the House Foreign Relations Committee passed House Resolution 252, officially recognizing Armenian Genocide.
"If we hope to stop future genocides we need to admit to those horrific acts of the past. When Hitler had to convince his cohorts that the world would let them get away with it, he turned to them and said, ‘Who today speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?'," said Sherman. "The last act of any genocide is genocide denial, and the first act of preventing the next genocide is to acknowledge past acts of genocide."
Washington, D.C. - A House panel on Wednesday voted to block the Export-Import Bank of the United States from funding a proposed railroad that would link Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan while bypassing Armenia.
The Export-Import bank is the federal government agency that helped finance the ill-conceived Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to transport crude oil from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
Washington, D.C. - The House International Relations Committee on Thursday adopted a pair of resolutions calling on Turkey to acknowledge the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I.
œIt is long past time for us to criticize the Ottoman Empire for the first genocide of the 20th century, said Congressman Brad Sherman, a member of the prestigious panel.
œIgnoring genocide is the last act of genocide, Sherman added. œWhere would modern Germany be if it was ruled by a government denying the Holocaust?