Author: Badalian Vardan

EUROPEAN COURT FINES ARMENIA FOR ‘UNFAIR’ TRIAL
By Karine Kalantarian

Radio Liberty, Czech Rep.
June 29 2007

The European Court of Human Rights has declared illegal and unfair
the imprisonment of an Armenian soldier who had been tortured into
confessing to a mysterious 1998 murder of a fellow army conscript.

Misha Harutiunian, now 27, was arrested in 1999 and sentenced to ten
years in prison in 2001 by an Armenian court despite proving that
his confession was extracted under severe duress. He was released on
parole in late 2002.

Harutiunian appealed to the European Court in November 2003 after
his repeated demands for acquittal were dismissed by Armenian courts.

In its second-ever ruling on an Armenia-related case announced late
Thursday, the Strasbourg-based tribunal met most of his demands. It
emphasized the fact that military police officers who interrogated
Harutiunian and two other soldiers were subsequently fired and
prosecuted for torture.

"The European Court of Human Rights noted that the applicant and the
two witnesses had been coerced into making confessions and that that
fact been confirmed by the domestic courts when the police officers
concerned were convicted of ill-treatment," it said in a statement.

The statement added that the use of such "evidence" rendered the
trial unfair as it violated a key article of the European Convention
on Human Rights.

The court ordered the Armenian state to pay the young man, who now
resides in Moscow, 4,000 euros ($5,200) in "non-pecuniary" damages.

Harutiunian’s lawyer, Hayk Alumian, told RFE/RL that he will use the
verdict to again seek his client’s full acquittal by an Armenian
court and as much as $100,000 worth of financial compensation for
"physical damage" suffered by Harutiunian.

Harutiunian and the two other soldiers were arrested several months
after another soldier serving in their military unit deployed on the
border with Azerbaijan was found dead in June 1998. He was initially
believed to have been shot by an Azerbaijani sniper. However, military
police investigators subsequently abandoned this theory and blamed
the murder on Harutiunian.

According to Alumian, the two soldiers gave incriminating testimony
against his client after being brutally tortured by investigators.

"Can you imagine that they had their hand nails squeezed by pliers?"

he told RFE/RL.

Alumian claimed that the same form of torture was then used against
Harutiunian, forcing the latter to incriminate himself. "Misha
Harutiunian had no lawyer at the time," the attorney said. "When I
took over the case a month later, all of his ten fingers were black.

They were not only squeezed by pliers. When you read what was done
to him you will be shocked."

The European Court ruling is a further blow to the credibility
and moral authority of Armenia’s military prosecutors, who are
still reeling from the de facto acquittal by an appeals court last
December of three other soldiers jailed on similar murder charges. The
case against the now demobilized soldiers was likewise based on a
"confession" made but subsequently retracted by one of them. The
young man, Razmik Sargsian, insists that it was extracted by force.

AZERBAIJANI AMBASSADOR:I AM RIGHT IN VISITING KARABAKH (VIDEO)

TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 29 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend A.Ismaylova / "I am right in visiting
Nagorno-Karabakh," said the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia, Polad
Bulbuloglu, who headed the Azerbaijani delegation visiting the occupied
Azerbaijani lands on 28 June together with Armenian intellectuals.

According to Bulbuloglu, somebody had to do it. The diplomat said
that he is going to continue his activity in this regard.

The Ambassador did not exclude the possibility to realize humanitarian
projects together with the Armenians in the occupied Azerbaijani lands,
as well as the restoration of mosques in Shusha.

ELDENIZ NURIYEV SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN JAIL WITH PARRICIDE CHARGE

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
June 29 2007

Verdict on Eldeniz Nuriyev, who was accused of parricide, has been
brought in the Azerbaijani court for serious crimes. Eldeniz Nuriyev
was sentenced to 12 years in jail under court decision chaired by
Judge Mammadbagir Zeynalov, APA reports.

Eldeniz Nuriyev lost in the territory of Fuzili and was captured by
Armenian Armed Forces on January 16 this year. He was arrested after
law enforcement bodies made investigations about him. He is charged
with article 247(parricide) of Criminal Code.

ALEXANDER ISKANDARYAN: RUDOLF PERINA’S APPOINTMENT IS SERIOUS STEP BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.06.2007 16:29 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Rudolf Perina is a professional diplomat and it
says everything," Director of Caucasian Media Institute political
scientist Alexander Iskandaryan stated to the PanARMENIAN.Net
journalist commenting on Rudolf Perina’s appointment as U.S. Charge
d’Affaires in Armenia.

He said, the time will show how this nomination is positive for
Armenia. "The matter is not in figures, the matter is in priorities
of U.S. foreign policy.

The appointment of a diplomat with such a rank is a serious step by
the Department of State," he underscored.

OSCE Minsk Group former U.S. Co-Chair Rudolf Perina is appointed
as U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Armenia. He will take up his duties on
July 10.

RUDOLF PERINA’S APPOINTMENT SPEAKS ABOUT GREAT IMPORTANCE OF ARMENIA AND NKR FOR USA

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.06.2007 13:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Frankly speaking, I do not know the diplomatic
rank of Rudolf Perina. However, he is a really experienced diplomat,
professional conflictologist. R. Perina served as U.S. Special
Envoy on local conflicts in Eurasia, he was closely involved in
the settlement of the Yugoslavian conflict, directly participated
in preparing and signing the Dayton Agreement," political scientist
Levon Melik-Shahnazaryan stated to the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist,
commenting on Rudolf Perina’s appointment as U.S. Charge d’Affaires
in Armenia. According to the political scientist, R. Perina is
well aware of problems of Transdnestria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia
and Karabakh. "Most likely, R. Perina’s appointment as U.S. Charge
d’Affaires in Armenia is not an evidence for neglecting his knowledge
and values, just the opposite, it speaks about the great importance
that Washington pays to our region, in particular, to Armenia and NKR,"
the Armenian political scientist underscored.

OSCE Minsk Group former U.S. Co-Chair Rudolf Perina is appointed
as U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Armenia. He will take up his duties on
July 10.

KURDISH: A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
By Joost Lagendijk*

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
June 28 2007

Without a doubt, the Kurdish issue is one of the most important
political problems in Turkey.

The problem is not only a bloody political issue involving the deaths
of more than 30,000 people, but at the same time a crisis felt at
all the layers of the system from local governments to the Parliament.

Although the former policy of the republic, which was founded on the
practice of denying Kurds, is about to completely rot, the "Kurdish
reality" as articulated by politicians such as Demirel, Ozal, Erdoðan
and others cannot be said to have been appreciated well enough.

The most recent example of this is a decision reached by the Eighth
Chamber of the Council of the State on June 14, 2007 to remove the
mayor of the Sur district of Diyarbakýr, Abdullah Demirbaþ, and
the members of the municipal council. Endorsing the decision made
by the interior minister, the high court ruled in October 2006 that
giving information on various municipal services such as culture, art,
environment, city cleaning and health in languages other than Turkish
is against the Constitution, removing the people in question from
office. However, the above-mentioned municipality conducted research
and discovered that 24 percent of people spoke Turkish in their daily
lives, 72 percent Kurdish, 1 percent Arabic and 3 percent Syrian and
Armenian, resulting in the decision to give services in these languages
to reach all the people benefiting from them. As a matter of fact,
even though one wouldn’t need to conduct a study to find out that
the majority of people in Diyarbakýr speak Kurdish — not Turkish —
it turned out a useful one in terms of revealing the exact figures.

The Interior Ministry described this decision as a political one
and determined that Article 222 of the Turkish Penal Code (TCK)
was violated. The high court agreed with the ministry’s view and
also came to the opinion that "a quality has formed that exceeds
the exercising of the fundamental rights and liberties defined and
secured by the Constitution and international conventions and that is
against the purpose and implications of these rules" and decided to
remove the mayor from office and depose the municipal council. This
decision of the Council of the State indubitably reflects the laws in
Turkey and the constitutional realities and also clearly defines the
boundaries of Kurdish. While it is a necessity to be respectful toward
the decisions of the high court, doing so is giving rise to dismaying
results. The mayor and the members of the municipal council will not be
able to stand for the elections to be renewed in two months’ time and,
what’s more, they will stand trial because they committed a "crime."

The mayor of the Diyarbakýr Metropolitan Municipality, Osman Baydemir,
is being subjected to a similar set of interrogations and judicial
process. Most of these issues taken to court relate to using Kurdish,
as was the case with the problematic celebration cards used in 2006 and
2007. These cards, containing nothing more than good wishes for the new
year in Turkish, English and Kurdish, were taken by the prosecutor as
enough evidence to launch an investigation. The prosecutor, who seems
to have spent little time on the indictment, cut it very short and
wrote: "It was determined that the suspect used a Kurdish sentence
in the celebration card, ‘Sersela We Piroz Be’ (Happy New Year). I,
on behalf of the public, demand that he be punished under Article
222/1 of the Turkish Penal Code." So, it will benefit us to look at
this article of the penal code a bit closer.

Law on protection of the Turkish alphabet

Article 222 of the TCK was put into effect in the 1920s. The young
republic, which decided to stop using Arabic letters and write Turkish
with the Latin alphabet, made a very radical move in regard to written
communication. The scholars who oversaw judicial and religious matters
in the society — and whose command of Arabic was perfect — were not
only divested of their positions in the state with this move, but were
also thrust outside the chain of communication between people and the
state. Through crash courses on the new alphabet, the founders tried
to generate new "elites" and made it an obligation to use the Latin
alphabet. This article, as well as the law that obliged the wearing
of the felt hat by every male citizen and the ban on wearing the fez
and similar "old" clothes outside mosques, bluntly illustrates the
purpose of the lawmaker.

With this article, the scholars all over Turkey were reduced to
invisibility in society.

However legally surprising it may be to see this article used against
communication in Kurdish, the practice fits with the article’s history
and purpose. The Latin alphabet is also used to write Kurdish in
Turkey, but it has letters like "î" and "w," which are not used in
Turkish. Legally speaking, the penal code’s article in question should
have been directed against using these extra letters, which are not
used in Turkish. The prosecutor did not even take the trouble to
find a link between this article and the "crime." According to him,
Mayor Baydemir used a Kurdish sentence to celebrate the new year and
therefore committed a "crime." Maybe the prosecutor did not want
to delve into details as the English version of the celebration,
Happy New Year, also contains the letter "w." In fact the letter "w"
constituting a crime in Kurdish but not in English would be pushing
it a little in the legal and political sense.

Kurdish still a forbidden language

Similar things happened and are still happening to Kurdish names.

These letters used to write Kurdish names are still not accepted
in Turkey, and families are forced to write such names using the
Turkish alphabet. The increasingly widespread execution of laws
against speaking Kurdish similar to Article 222 in recent years
makes the issue politically significant. Human rights defenders
perceive this development as a new means of pressure against Kurdish
people. In election campaigns, the investigations launched into the
use of Kurdish did not produce any results and, to reach voters, the
courts that settled the matters defined the use of local tongues as
a fundamental right to be exercised and did not see any element of
guilt. The newly launched investigations and lawsuits filed give the
impression that a political will has come into the play to prevent
Kurdish from being spoken as a language of communication. The purpose
appears to be the prevention of using Kurdish in communication between
institutions and associations. What is feared, perhaps, is that Kurdish
may gradually become a normal means of daily communication in provinces
like Diyarbakýr where the majority of people speak Kurdish.

Looking at the matter from a broader perspective tells us that the
decisions made by the local government of the Sur district and similar
places to use Kurdish as a means of social communication also has
a political dimension to it, thus it would be naïve to overlook the
fact that the issue goes beyond being merely linguistics.

However, the base of the problem is still whether the Kurdish language
should be used for communication or not. After issuing a press release,
the mayors went into details in their statements and stressed that
they would continue using Kurdish whether or not it constituted a
crime. The high-tension line in Turkey related to the Kurdish issue
is thus laid down. This line is dividing people into two parties
based on a question of whether using a simple Kurdish sentence like
"Sersela We Piroz Be" means separatism — therefore constituting a
"crime" — and the opinion that Kurdish is a very normal means of
communication in a city comprising predominantly Kurds.

There are strong legal grounds supporting our view. As part of reforms
made in harmonization with the EU, it has become possible to use
"languages other than Turkish," thanks to a change in Article 26 of
the Constitution. These reforms include the right to learn Kurdish
and broadcast and publish in this language. If these reforms have any
meaning at all, Kurdish should allowed use in Diyarbakýr. We see that
the mayors, who must be listened to, also put forward strong arguments.

The Turkish Law on Municipalities, just as with all democratic
countries, charges municipal administrations with being the first to
give various information and services, envisaging that people will
participate in the decision-making process when it comes to cultural,
environmental, health and other local issues. The mayors in return
state that to be able to give those services, they must use Kurdish
as it is spoken by the majority. They also point out that a certain
segment of the population either doesn’t know Turkish at a necessary
level or can’t speak it at all. It will probably be beneficial to
allow the use of Kurdish in order to reach as much of society as
possible for important issues such as, say, cleanliness. We deem it
unnecessary to stress once again that the language is indispensable
to cultural matters. Moreover, the European Human Rights Bill — very
applicable considering Turkey is a founding member of the European
Council — declares it a fundamental right of individuals to use
their mother language and receive information in that language,
making it compulsory to respect to this right.

As a consequence, we believe it is high time that Turkey starts
implementing a truly modern democracy and leave behind the practice
of finding an element of guilt in every Kurdish sentence written
on a simple celebration card. Unless a line can be drawn between
violence and terrorism and the exercising of fundamental rights such
as communicating in one’s native tongue, people’s rights and the law
will continue being vague concepts. Finding a lasting solution to the
Kurdish issue is only possible with the supremacy of rights and law.

*Cochairman of the Turkey-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission

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ARMENIA’S GOVERNMENT PLANS TO PROVIDE 8-10% ANNUAL GDP GROWTH IN 2007-2012

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
June 26 2007

YEREVAN, June 26. /ARKA/. Armenia’s Government plans to provide
8-10% annual GDP growth in 2007-2012, runs the action plan of the RA
Government submitted to the Parliament on Tuesday. The document said
that the growth will allow Armenia entering the group of countries
with average income by the end of 2009.

The Government attaches importance to the maintenance of macroeconomic
growth from the viewpoint of stable economic growth.

With this objective it is planned to continue tax and budgetary policy
in maintaining stable tempos of economic growth and macroeconomic
stability.

At the same time, according to the Government, the reliable and
predictable money and credit policy to be implemented by the Central
Bank of Armenia is an important precondition for economic development.

According to the program, the Government planned minimum 10% growth
of annual investments. The growth of urban employment is planned 10%
or 105ths positions. Such result is planned to be achieved by means
of encouraging investments and further development of business
and investment environment as well as simplification of business
procedures.

The annual growth of labor productivity is expected to make 7% in
the coming five years.

The Government intends to provide 27-30% correlation of investments
and GDP which will be enough to provide 8-10% GDP growth.

The necessary volume of capital investments is planed to be achieved
by private investments, in some cases on the basis of cooperation
between state and private sectors.

According to the program, the level of collection of state incomes
is expected to make 0.3-0.4pct from annual GDP.

The Government also planed annual increase in pensions, as a result
of which in 2012 the average pension will exceed the index of poverty
by 1.5 times.

Besides, it is envisaged to increase financing of social, healthcare
and culture sectors. According to the program, state expenditures of
the social maintenance and social insurance system will make 6.2%,
healthcare – 2.2%, education – 3.5% of the GDP.

The program points out that the Government treats 29.8% poverty level
rather high. Significant poverty reduction is considered as one of
the main objectives of the executive power. The document envisages
significant poverty reduction, as a result of which the index will
be lower than 11.2% in 2010 and the extreme poverty – less than 1.6%.

At that the total level of poverty should not exceed 6.4% in Yerevan,
15.1%, – in other cites, 12% – in rural areas. The extreme poverty
should not exceed 0.8% in Yerevan, 2.3% – in other cities – 2.3%
and rural areas – 1.7%.

Cooperating with all the sides interested, the Government will
continue the process of considering the Strategic program overcoming
poverty and in 2007 will approve the program for 2008-2015, treating
it as the most important element of the country’s stable and safe
development.

A CROSS TO SHARE
By Waveney Ann Moore

Tampa Bay, FL
imes/A_cross_to_share.shtml
June 27 2007

PINELLAS PARK – Men, women and children tilted their heads skyward
Sunday as a blue and white crane hoisted a giant aluminum cross atop
the dome of the new St. Hagop Armenian Church.

They cheered as the mechanical arm set the cross in place and again
as nearly two dozen doves – symbols of the Holy Spirit – were released.

Sunday’s ceremony was an important step in a long journey that began
more than 30 years ago with a handful of intrepid Armenian families who
dreamed of building not only a church, but also a cultural touchstone
for thousands.

While the 250-seat church is not yet complete, parish leaders already
are planning for the next step – a historic October consecration.

The event will have both local and national significance. Present
for the ceremony in Pinellas Park will be His Holiness Karekin II,
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. Karekin, who will
travel from Armenia, is scheduled to consecrate the church during
his pontifical visit to the United States. Parish leaders say it
will be the first time in recent memory that their world leader will
consecrate a church on American soil.

The consecration will take place almost 10 years later than hoped.

Back in 1997, Karekin’s predecessor promised to consecrate St. Hagop’s
new church during his 1998 visit. Construction, though, didn’t begin
until last fall.

"It’s been many years since this congregation has worked and talked
and struggled to build a house of worship for the Armenian community
on the west coast of Florida, " said the Rev. Mardiros Chevian, who
traveled from St. Vartan Cathedral in New York City to officiate at
Sunday’s cross raising ceremony.

The ceremony, attended by about 200 parishioners, many trying to
capture the historic event with cameras, began with a procession
out of the unfinished church, over makeshift ramps and through the
sandy construction site at 7050 90th Ave. N. Chevian, robed in ornate,
embroidered vestments, blessed the giant white cross with holy oil and
incense before it was lifted by crane to the church’s reddish-brown
roof. Awaiting the giant Christian symbol were George Apostolou,
owner of the Tierra Verde construction company that’s building the
church, and Al Carr of Al’s Mobile Welding in St. Petersburg. Carr
crafted the traditional Armenian cross from aluminium sheets and
aluminum pipe. As the congregation watched with rapt attention below,
the two men secured the cross on a steel pipe and bolted it in place.

It was a significant moment in the community’s life, said Arsen
Bayandrian, chairman of the parish council and a member of St. Hagop’s
since 1985. The church has always been a religious, educational and
cultural center for Armenian people, he said.

"Armenians like to be where there is an Armenian church, " the
Clearwater resident said, adding that families moving to Florida have
chosen to settle in towns such as Boca Raton and Hollywood because
of their thriving churches.

"Now I think we can see a growing population here in this part of
Florida because of this structure, the sanctuary we’re building now
… . We have people come here from as far as Lakeland, " Bayandrian
said. "We hope we can open the doors to everyone and give this
community a better understanding of who the Armenians are."

The new church represents a new beginning, said George Kamajian,
a member of the parish council from Indian Shores.

The congregation, drawn from throughout the Tampa Bay area and beyond
to Manatee, Sarasota and Polk counties, had its beginnings with the
Armenian-American Society of the Suncoast, which was formed in 1974.

The church itself began as a mission in the 1980s.

The congregation’s first service was held at St. John’s Episcopal
Church in Clearwater. Services were held for a while at St. Thomas’
Episcopal Church in St. Petersburg. In 1997, the congregation began
worshiping in a small chapel on the 10-acre property it purchased
off Belcher Road. Through the years, though, members continued to
turn to St. Thomas’, St. Stefano’s Greek Orthodox and Sacred Heart
Catholic churches when a large facility was needed.

The congregation’s spacious church is being built in traditional
Armenian architectural style. The dome on which the cross stands is
pointed rather than round. The altar faces east. As well, the stucco
exterior will be covered with pink tufa stone mined in Armenia.

"To our knowledge it will be the first Armenian church outside of
Armenia to be so ‘wrapped, ‘ " said Dr. Hagop "Jack" Mashikian, a
retired psychiatrist and vice chairman of the church’s parish council.

"This is going to be a tourist attraction, " he said.

Besides the new place of worship, the congregation is planning to
build multipurpose and cultural centers.

The Pinellas Park parish is part of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
which traces its beginning to the first century, when the apostles
Thaddeus and Bartholomew preached in Armenia and were martyred. St.

Hagop’s is among the denomination’s three largest parishes in Florida.

In September, the parish will get a permanent priest, the Rev. Hovnan
Demerjian. It’s another reason for church leaders to be optimistic
about St. Hagop’s future.

"We’re seeing more children and younger adults, which is our hope,
so that the next generation takes over and continues our heritage,"
Mashikian said.

KAROLOS PAPOULIAS: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS A BLACK STRIPE IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

ArmRadio.am
27.06.2007 17:11

"The victims must demonstrate tolerance, if the persecutors are
disposed to accept its fault," the President of Greece Karolos
Papoulias said during the meeting with the faculty and students of
the Yerevan State University, obviously having in view the Armenian
Genocide and similar issues. According to the Greek President,
political and individual courage is needed for that, like the one
Germany demonstrated by recognizing the Holocaust of Jews.

Karolos Papoulias today visited the Institute-Museum of Genocide. "The
fact of the Genocide is very barbaric from the perspective of human
rights violations and is a black stripe in contemporary history. The
fact of the Genocide should be at least recognized, the guilty must
be held responsible and should apologize," the President of Greece
wrote down in the book of records. The First Lady of Greece, Mrs. May
Papoulia wrote: "Once again I felt the deep roots, which unite the
Armenian and Greek peoples."

The Library of Congress H.RES.106
Title: Calling upon the President to ensure that the foreign policy of the
United States reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning
issues related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in
the United States record relating to the Armenian Genocide, and for other
purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] (introduced 1/30/2007) Cosponsors
(212)
Related Bills: S.RES.106
Latest Major Action: 1/30/2007 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred
to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

COSPONSORS(212), BY DATE [order is left to right]:
Rep Radanovich, George [CA-19] – 1/30/2007Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. [NJ-6] –
1/30/2007
Rep Knollenberg, Joe [MI-9] – 1/30/2007Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] – 1/30/2007
Rep McCotter, Thaddeus G. [MI-11] – 1/30/2007Rep McNulty, Michael R.
[NY-21] – 1/31/2007
Rep Kildee, Dale E. [MI-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] –
1/31/2007
Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-7] – 1/31/2007Rep Costello, Jerry F. [IL-12] –
1/31/2007
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] – 1/31/2007Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] –
1/31/2007
Rep Lipinski, Daniel [IL-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Langevin, James R. [RI-2] –
1/31/2007
Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] – 1/31/2007Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] –
1/31/2007
Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y. [PA-13] – 1/31/2007Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] –
1/31/2007
Rep McMorris Rodgers, Cathy [WA-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] –
1/31/2007
Rep Blumenauer, Earl [OR-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] –
1/31/2007
Rep Neal, Richard E. [MA-2] – 1/31/2007Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. [RI-1] –
1/31/2007
Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] – 1/31/2007Rep Kirk, Mark Steven [IL-10] –
1/31/2007
Rep Nunes, Devin [CA-21] – 1/31/2007Rep Capuano, Michael E. [MA-8] –
1/31/2007
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] – 1/31/2007Rep Berry, Marion [AR-1] –
1/31/2007
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] – 1/31/2007Rep Lynch, Stephen F. [MA-9] –
1/31/2007
Rep Doolittle, John T. [CA-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] –
1/31/2007
Rep Matsui, Doris O. [CA-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] –
1/31/2007
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] – 1/31/2007Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] –
1/31/2007
Rep Van Hollen, Chris [MD-8] – 1/31/2007Rep Crowley, Joseph [NY-7] –
1/31/2007
Rep Allen, Thomas H. [ME-1] – 1/31/2007Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] – 1/31/2007
Rep Diaz-Balart, Lincoln [FL-21] – 1/31/2007Rep Ackerman, Gary L. [NY-5] –
1/31/2007
Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] – 1/31/2007Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] –
1/31/2007
Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] – 1/31/2007Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] – 1/31/2007
Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] – 1/31/2007Rep Doyle, Michael F. [PA-14] –
1/31/2007
Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] – 1/31/2007Rep Lofgren, Zoe [CA-16] – 1/31/2007
Rep Rogers, Mike J. [MI-8] – 1/31/2007Rep Cantor, Eric [VA-7] – 1/31/2007
Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Meehan, Martin T. [MA-5] –
1/31/2007
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] –
1/31/2007
Rep Sanchez, Linda T. [CA-39] – 1/31/2007Rep Berman, Howard L. [CA-28] –
1/31/2007
Rep Eshoo, Anna G. [CA-14] – 1/31/2007Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 1/31/2007
Rep Dingell, John D. [MI-15] – 1/31/2007Rep Engel, Eliot L. [NY-17] –
1/31/2007
Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] – 1/31/2007Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] – 1/31/2007
Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-30] –
1/31/2007
Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10] – 1/31/2007Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille
[CA-34] – 1/31/2007
Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6] – 1/31/2007Rep Diaz-Balart, Mario [FL-25] –
1/31/2007
Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] – 1/31/2007Rep Campbell, John [CA-48] –
1/31/2007
Rep Walz, Timothy J. [MN-1] – 1/31/2007Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] –
1/31/2007
Rep Porter, Jon C. [NV-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Baca, Joe [CA-43] – 1/31/2007
Rep Cleaver, Emanuel [MO-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13] –
1/31/2007
Rep Tauscher, Ellen O. [CA-10] – 1/31/2007Rep Frelinghuysen, Rodney P.
[NJ-11] – 1/31/2007
Rep Visclosky, Peter J. [IN-1] – 1/31/2007Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] –
1/31/2007
Rep English, Phil [PA-3] – 1/31/2007(withdrawn – 3/15/2007)Rep Cardoza,
Dennis A. [CA-18] – 1/31/2007
Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] – 1/31/2007Rep Gonzalez, Charles A. [TX-20] –
1/31/2007
Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33] – 1/31/2007Rep Jindal, Bobby [LA-1] –
1/31/2007(withdrawn – 1/31/2007)
Rep Sarbanes, John P. [MD-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Gerlach, Jim [PA-6] – 1/31/2007
Rep Davis, Susan A. [CA-53] – 1/31/2007Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] –
1/31/2007
Rep Holden, Tim [PA-17] – 1/31/2007Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] – 1/31/2007
Rep Levin, Sander M. [MI-12] – 1/31/2007Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] –
1/31/2007
Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] – 1/31/2007Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] – 1/31/2007
Rep McCollum, Betty [MN-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Hare, Phil [IL-17] – 1/31/2007
Rep Costa, Jim [CA-20] – 1/31/2007Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] –
1/31/2007
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 1/31/2007Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] –
1/31/2007
Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Ryan, Paul [WI-1] – 1/31/2007
Rep Miller, George [CA-7] – 1/31/2007Rep Doggett, Lloyd [TX-25] – 1/31/2007
Rep Becerra, Xavier [CA-31] – 1/31/2007Rep Sanchez, Loretta [CA-47] –
1/31/2007
Rep Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [GA-2] – 1/31/2007Rep Schakowsky, Janice D.
[IL-9] – 1/31/2007
Rep Solis, Hilda L. [CA-32] – 1/31/2007Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] –
1/31/2007
Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. [NJ-2] – 1/31/2007Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] –
1/31/2007
Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Ferguson, Mike [NJ-7] – 1/31/2007
Rep Bono, Mary [CA-45] – 1/31/2007Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] – 1/31/2007
Rep Sires, Albio [NJ-13] – 1/31/2007Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] – 1/31/2007
Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] – 1/31/2007Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N.
[CO-4] – 1/31/2007
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 1/31/2007Rep McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [CA-25] –
1/31/2007
Rep Herseth, Stephanie [SD] – 1/31/2007Rep Bean, Melissa L. [IL-8] –
1/31/2007
Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] – 1/31/2007
Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1] – 1/31/2007Rep Weller, Jerry [IL-11] – 1/31/2007
Rep Pastor, Ed [AZ-4] – 1/31/2007Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] – 1/31/2007
Rep Rangel, Charles B. [NY-15] – 1/31/2007Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] –
1/31/2007
Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] – 1/31/2007Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] –
1/31/2007
Rep Carnahan, Russ [MO-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] – 1/31/2007
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Jones, Stephanie Tubbs
[OH-11] – 1/31/2007
Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita
[CA-37] – 1/31/2007
Rep Shimkus, John [IL-19] – 1/31/2007Rep Dent, Charles W. [PA-15] –
1/31/2007
Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] – 1/31/2007Rep Boren, Dan [OK-2] –
1/31/2007(withdrawn – 5/2/2007)
Rep Davis, Lincoln [TN-4] – 1/31/2007Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] – 1/31/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] – 1/31/2007Rep Kind, Ron [WI-3] – 1/31/2007
Rep Matheson, Jim [UT-2] – 1/31/2007Rep Melancon, Charlie [LA-3] – 1/31/2007
Rep Moore, Dennis [KS-3] – 1/31/2007(withdrawn – 3/13/2007)Rep Ross, Mike
[AR-4] – 1/31/2007
Rep Ryan, Tim [OH-17] – 1/31/2007Rep Scott, David [GA-13] –
1/31/2007(withdrawn – 4/18/2007)
Rep Thompson, Mike [CA-1] – 1/31/2007Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] – 1/31/2007
Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] – 1/31/2007Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] –
1/31/2007
Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] – 2/5/2007Rep McNerney, Jerry [CA-11] – 2/5/2007
Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] – 2/5/2007Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] –
2/5/2007
Rep Green, Gene [TX-29] – 2/5/2007Rep McCarthy, Kevin [CA-22] – 2/5/2007
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [GA-4] – 2/8/2007Rep Lamborn, Doug
[CO-5] – 2/8/2007
Rep Walsh, James T. [NY-25] – 2/8/2007Rep Wu, David [OR-1] – 2/8/2007
Rep Marchant, Kenny [TX-24] – 2/8/2007Rep Harman, Jane [CA-36] – 2/8/2007
Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 2/8/2007Rep Green, Al [TX-9] – 3/1/2007
Rep Bachmann, Michele [MN-6] – 3/1/2007Rep LaTourette, Steven C. [OH-14] –
3/1/2007
Rep Space, Zachary T. [OH-18] – 3/12/2007Rep Brady, Robert A. [PA-1] –
3/12/2007
Rep Baird, Brian [WA-3] – 3/12/2007Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] – 3/12/2007
Rep Perlmutter, Ed [CO-7] – 3/29/2007Rep Sutton, Betty [OH-13] – 3/29/2007
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] – 3/29/2007Rep Salazar, John T. [CO-3] –
4/16/2007
Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] – 4/16/2007Rep Reichert, David G. [WA-8] –
4/16/2007
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] – 4/16/2007Rep Bishop, Timothy H. [NY-1] –
4/19/2007
Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] – 4/19/2007Rep Braley, Bruce L. [IA-1] –
4/19/2007
Rep Hodes, Paul W. [NH-2] – 5/9/2007Rep Courtney, Joe [CT-2] – 5/14/2007
Rep Udall, Tom [NM-3] – 5/14/2007Rep Roskam, Peter J. [IL-6] – 5/21/2007
Rep Murphy, Christopher S. [CT-5] – 5/21/2007Rep Larson, John B. [CT-1] –
5/24/2007
Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] – 6/7/2007Rep Walberg, Timothy [MI-7] – 6/7/2007
Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] – 6/7/2007Rep Hirono, Mazie K. [HI-2] –
6/20/2007
Rep Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [NY-29] – 6/20/2007Rep Thompson, Bennie G.
[MS-2] – 6/20/2007
Rep Barrow, John [GA-12] – 6/20/2007Rep Meek, Kendrick B. [FL-17] –
6/21/2007
Rep Mitchell, Harry E. [AZ-5] – 6/21/2007Rep Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [GU] –
6/21/2007
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] – 6/26/2007Rep Marshall, Jim [GA-8] – 6/26/2007
Rep Davis, Artur [AL-7] – 6/26/2007Rep Rodriguez, Ciro D. [TX-23] –
6/26/2007
Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] – 6/26/2007Rep Cuellar, Henry [TX-28] –
6/26/2007
Rep Wicker, Roger F. [MS-1] – 6/26/2007