Author: Karakhanian Suren

PanARMENIAN.Net

Serge Sargsyan intends to personally thank Congressmen
who voted for H.Res.106
13.10.2007 13:19 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia must be grateful to the Congressmen who
voted for the Armenian Genocide Resolution in the U.S. House Committee
on Foreign Affairs, RA Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan told reporters
during a visit to Aragatsotn region of the republic.

`We are grateful to all those Congressmen who dealt with the issue
and especially those who voted for the Armenian Genocide Resolution. I
think I will have the chance to thank them personally,’ he said,
Novosti Armenia reports.

The RA Prime Minister will depart for Washington in mid-October for an
annual meeting of the IMF and WB and session of the committee on
U.S.-Armenian economic cooperation.

October 10, with a vote 27 too 21 the U.S. House Committee on Foreign
Affairs adopted the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, which was
introduced by Representative Adam Schiff January 30, 2007. The measure
is co-sponsored by 226 Congressmen.

Being a non-binding resolution, it’s not supposed to be sent to
Senate or to be signed by the President.

American Chronicle, CA
Oct 12 2007

House Committee Adds God to Genocide List!

Philip F. Harris
October 12, 2007

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee decided
to broaden its resolution condemning the Ottoman Empires genocide of
Armenians to include a few more historical events. Not wanting to
offend just the Turks, the Committee thought they should spread the
condemnations. Citing the contagious new disease, Bush-itis, which
makes you want to offend everyone, allies in particular, The
Committee felt they should set the historical records straight.

The new resolution has labeled as genocide the following events or
actions: the Assyrian Empire, the Peloponnesian War, the Amalekites
and the Midianites, the Third Punic War, the Mongols, Christopher
Columbus, Spain in general and the Inquisition, the U.S. slaughter of
native Americans, the Slave trade, Argentina, the British for their
actions in Australia, the French Revolution, the Germans for their
actions in South-West Africa, the UK for the Irish famine, the
Russians, the Nazis, Croatia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, the Tutsi, the
Khmer Rouge, Indonesia, Lebanon, Iraq, the former Soviet Union, China
for their actions in Tibet, Brazil, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan, and the
Pope for the slaughter of the Cathars and Pagans in general, and God
and his angels for their action in Egypt and the general smiting of
those opposed to Him.

The White said that they were pleased that the Committee did not just
single out Turkey since we still need our bases in their Country.
Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel said that while more historical
could have been a part of the resolution, it will do for now. He
added that he hopes the committee will tackle this touchy subject
again next year in the hopes of telling historians what should be in
the history books rather than relying upon common sense and
historical conjecture.

In response to the Committee’s resolution, not only has Turkey
recalled its ambassador but the Vatican, England, Spain, Russia,
China, most Latin American countries, Indonesia and every country
mentioned or implied in the resolution has followed Turkey’s lead. It
has been noted that angels have been seen at the U.S. Treasury
erasing the words, In God We Trust from U.S. currency in retaliation
for the Biblical implications of genocide.

Committee members were not concerned over the recent diplomatic
events as they assured each other that their actions would get them
some votes at re-election time from the groups that have been targets
of the genocides cited in the resolution. Their only real concern was
the angelic activity but, they placated themselves by admitting that
the removal of the phrase on the currency would gain the votes of the
atheists. They were further heartened by the fact that the President
had not as yet alienated all of these groups and they were pleased to
beat the White house to the punch.

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Ankara recalls envoy from U.S.

October 12, 2007

By Nicholas Kralev – Turkey temporarily recalled its ambassador to
Washington yesterday in a standard diplomatic protest against a
resolution adopted by a House committee this week that branded mass
killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915 as genocide.

The measure, which the White House opposes, was approved by the House
Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi, California Democrat, said a floor vote will be called by
mid-November.

Ambassador Nabi Sensoy was ordered back to Ankara for a week to 10
days, said Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Levent Bilman.

"We are not withdrawing our ambassador. We have asked him to come to
Turkey for some consultations," he said. "The ambassador was given
instructions to return and will come at his earliest convenience."

The State Department played down the significance of the move, with
one official calling it a "fairly limited response" to the House
resolution. "I would have been surprised if they hadn’t done it," he
said.

U.S. officials also indicated that they had no intention of recalling
the American ambassador in Ankara, Ross Wilson. They said the Turkish
government understood the Bush administration is working hard to make
sure the vote in the full House fails.

Mr. Sensoy’s recall "certainly will not do anything to limit our
efforts to continue to reach out to Turkish officials, to explain our
views, to engage them on this issue and again to make clear that we
intend to work on this with Congress," State Department spokesman Tom
Casey said.

The House measure, though nonbinding, came at a sensitive time for
U.S.-Turkish relations. The Bush administration is worried about the
intention of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to seek
parliamentary approval to send troops across the border into Iraq to
hunt down Kurdish rebels as soon as next week.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul yesterday denounced the House committee
vote as "unacceptable," and Mr. Erdogan warned of more severe
consequences for Ankara’s relations with Washington if the resolution
is passed by the full House.

About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo destined for Iraq and one-third of
the fuel used by the U.S. military there goes through Turkey, a NATO
ally. Turkish truckers crossing into northern Iraq also provide water
and other supplies to the Americans in the U.S. bases there.

"Access to airfields and to the roads and so on in Turkey would very
much be put at risk if this resolution passes and Turkey reacts as
strongly as we believe they will," Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates
said Wednesday.

Armenian President Robert Kocharian welcomed the vote yesterday,
saying: "We hope this process will lead to a full recognition by the
United States of America … of the genocide."

At least 1.5 million Armenians were killed from 1915 to 1923 under an
Ottoman Empire campaign of deportation and killings, according to
Armenians. Turkey strongly denies genocide was committed, though it
acknowledges that as many as 500,000 Armenians and a similar number of
Turks died in strife after Armenians took up arms for independence.

– This article is based in part on wire service reports

Source: REIGN/110120057/1003

AZERBAIJAN’S GROWING ECONOMIC CAPACITY HAS YET TO AFFECT KARABAKH RESOLUTION
By Fariz Ismailzade

Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC
Oct 11 2007

On September 4 Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated that the
national budget of the country in 2008 would reach $12 billion (Day.az,
September 4). Just three years ago, the budget totaled only $4 billion.

Aliyev’s announcement was no surprise to the domestic audience,
since the population of Azerbaijan has been witnessing a period
of booming economic growth unprecedented in the history of the
region. Last year Azerbaijan’s economy grew by 26% and so far in
2007 by 34%. This dramatic increase was mainly due to the start of
the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline’s operations and the corresponding
dramatic increase in oil exports.

Recently the Azerbaijani government has been making a direct link
between the country’s growing economic capacity and its ability to
solve the long-standing Karabakh conflict. Specifically, both carrot
and stick policies have been offered to the Armenian side. While
Azerbaijan has tripled its military budget from $300 million in
2005 to $1 billion in 2007, the government simultaneously has been
deepening its economic partnership with Georgia and other countries
of the region, such as Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Belarus, in order
to show official Yerevan the potential benefits of regional economic
cooperation. For example, Azerbaijan has initiated and funded the
Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project, which will immensely benefit the
Georgian and Turkish economies and bring greater prosperity to the
whole region.

However, the initial optimism that these policies would produce
tangible results in the Karabakh peace process seems to be fading.

Armenia, as indicated by Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskaniyan’s
recent statement at the UN General Assembly session in New York,
does not want to make concessions and withdraw military forces from
the occupied territories. On the contrary, the military empowerment
of Azerbaijan has created a sense of insecurity in Armenia, which
is pushing it further into the hands of the Kremlin. A new arms
scandal erupted in August, when Turkish border guards seized a
military hardware shipment en route to Armenia from Albania. Many
Azerbaijani analysts believe the origin of the cargo was Russia,
which is trying to further arm Armenia to offset the potential
military imbalance in the region. On October 8, Khazar Ibrahim,
spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan, stated, "Russia
should be very careful in such a sensitive issue as arming Armenia"
(Foreign Ministry official briefing, October 8).

In addition to the spiraling arms race in the Caucasus, local pundits
in Azerbaijan claim that the increase in the country’s military budget
has not affected the level of professionalism among the troops nor
has it increased the amount of military hardware available to the
soldiers. Azerbaijan focuses on purchasing military equipment mainly
from former Soviet republics, such as Russia, Belarus, Ukraine,
and Kazakhstan. As recently as October 8 the Kazakh defense minister
paid a visit to Baku to further enhance the military partnership with
the Azerbaijani government. These countries provide either outdated
equipment or charge large amounts to repair existing equipment,
a frequent need since the quality of the hardware is generally very
low. As a result, Azerbaijan’s military capability and its ability
to re-take Karabakh by force remains in serious doubt.

Baku’s economic policies have not impressed Yerevan. On October 8,
the Day.az website quoted an Armenian Dashnaktsutsun party official
saying, "Nagorno-Karabakh will never become part of Azerbaijan." This
statement, coupled with the deadlock in the negotiation process,
illustrates Azerbaijan’s inability to use the growing economic capacity
to change hearts and minds in Yerevan.

The only solution for the current deadlock is to encourage extensive
public diplomacy efforts between both countries. As long as mistrust
is high and dialogue opportunities are low, it will be extremely hard
to convince the public in both countries that compromises are needed to
peacefully resolve the conflict. If Azerbaijan agrees to restore public
ties with Armenia, it would reduce the feelings of insecurity in this
country and subsequently Yerevan’s level of dependence on Russia for
military and economic assistance. Only under these conditions can
Azerbaijan’s newfound economic prosperity facilitate the peaceful
resolution of the conflict.

RA FM CALLED ON EP TO THINK ABOUT ARTICLE 301 OF TURKISH PENAL CODE

PanARMENIAN.Net
10.10.2007 17:38 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Turkey’s proposal for setting up a commission
of historians to discuss the Armenian Genocide has been used by
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to put Armenia in a
difficult position," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said
in his address to European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
in Brussels.

He said there is no rejection of the offer but current conditions
are not suitable for such a discussion.

"Think about Article 301 which penalizes referring to the Armenian
genocide and insulting Turkishness. How would any historian
discuss this matter knowing that the sword of 301 is hanging over
them?" Oskanian said.

He described the border closure as another reason for not taking
Turkey’s offer seriously.

US HOUSE PANEL BACKS ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ BILL

WASHINGTON (AFP)
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US President George W. Bush speaks on the South Lawn of the White
House in Washington, DC. A key congressional committee Wednesday
defied warnings by Bush and Turkey, and endorsed a measure describing
the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians as "genocide." A key
congressional committee Wednesday defied warnings by President George
W. Bush and Turkey, and endorsed a measure describing the Ottoman
Empire’s massacre of Armenians as "genocide."

The non-binding measure, which passed the Democratic-led House of
Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee by 27 votes to 21, will
now be sent on to the full House for a possible vote.

The text says the World War I killings of Armenians was a "genocide"
that should be acknowledged fully in US foreign policy towards
Turkey, along with "the consequences of the failure to realize a
just resolution."

Bush and top lieutenants earlier were unusually blunt in attacking
the resolution.

The president said the resolution would do "great harm" to ties with
US ally Turkey, a Muslim-majority member of NATO whose territory is
a crucial transit point for US supplies bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.

According to the Armenians, 1.5 million of their kinsmen died during
World War I, in systematic deportations and killings under the
Ottoman Empire.

Rejecting the genocide label, Turkey argues that 250,000 to 500,000
Armenians and at least as many Turks died in civil strife when
Armenians took up arms for independence in eastern Anatolia during
the war.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (R) speaks as Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates listens during a statement to the media regarding
a House resolution that would label the mass killings of ethnic
Armenians as genocide, which Rice says would be "very problematic"
for ties with Turkey and for Middle East peace. A key congressional
committee Wednesday defied warnings by President George W. Bush and
Turkey, and endorsed a measure describing the Ottoman Empire’s massacre
of Armenians as "genocide." Turkey’s ambassador to Washington, Nabi
Sensoy, said the vote was "very disappointing" but called on House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi to refrain from bringing it to a full vote on
the House floor.

He would not prejudge the response of the Turkish parliament or
government, adding "those who said it won’t do any harm, we will have
to wait and see."

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert
Gates also denounced the measure before the hearing.

But despite the warnings, the resolution’s backers warned the issue
could not be ignored.

"Friends don’t let friends commit crimes against humanity," said New
Jersey Republican Representative Christopher Smith.

Democratic House member Gary Ackerman added "we’ve been told the
timing is bad. But the timing was bad for the Armenian people in 1915."

As tension mounted in an emotional hearing lasting nearly four hours,
Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos admitted lawmakers
faced a "sobering" choice, adding he would soon introduce a resolution
praising US-Turkish friendship.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice(R) and Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates speak to the media regarding a House resolution that
would label the mass killings of ethnic Armenians as genocide,
which Rice says would be "very problematic" for ties with Turkey
and for Middle East peace. A key congressional committee Wednesday
defied warnings by President George W. Bush and Turkey, and endorsed
a measure describing the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians as
"genocide." Republican lawmaker Dan Burton, however, said passage of
the genocide resolution could endanger US troops.

"We’re in the middle of two wars. We have troops out there who are
at risk. And we’re talking about kicking an ally in the teeth. It
is crazy."

Earlier, Rice said she sympathized with Armenians’ fate during World
War I.

"But the passage of this resolution at this time would, indeed, be
very problematic for everything that we’re trying to do in the Middle
East because we are very dependent on a good Turkish strategic ally
for this," she said.

The House resolution, which has a parallel measure in the Senate
pipeline, would be "very destabilizing for our efforts in Iraq and
Afghanistan," Rice added.

Gates said that about 70 percent of all Iraq-bound US air cargo,
95 percent of tough new mine-resistant vehicles and one-third of the
military’s fuel transit through Turkey.

US commanders "believe, clearly, that access to airfields and to
the roads and so on in Turkey would be very much put at risk if this
resolution passes and the Turks react as strongly as we believe they
will," he said.

In a letter Tuesday to Bush, new Turkish President Abdullah Gul
"drew attention to the serious problems that will emerge in bilateral
relations if the bill is adopted."

But the measure has strong backing in the House, where the Armenians’
wartime plight has been likened to the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews.

Late last month, all eight former US secretaries of state still
alive wrote to Pelosi urging her to withdraw her support of the
genocide measure.

ARMENIA NEEDS MOBILE GROUPS AND POWERFUL AIR FORCE

Lragir
Oct 10 2007
Armenia

The Republic of Armenia which is currently drafting its military
doctrine should be highly sensible in this document, stated Richard
Giragosian, a U.S.-based Armenian politician, former instructor
of the U.S. Special Force. He says Armenia should make efforts to
create special and mobile force. Richard Giragosian gave the example
of Israel whose geographical position and geopolitical situation is
much like Armenia’s.

Besides, Richard Giragosian said the air force is rather weak,
and Karabakh lacks air force at all. The former instructor of the
U.S. army thinks air force is underestimated in the Caucasus, at least
in Azerbaijan it is also underdeveloped, but Richard Giragosian is
amazed that Armenia does not focus on upgrading the air force.

TURKS, ARMENIANS AT ODDS OVER GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

Washington Times, DC
Oct 10 2007

The line to get into this afternoon’s House committee hearing on
whether to say Turkey committed genocide during World War I was down
the hall and around the corner.

When staffers opened the door, the room filled with Turks wearing
white stickers saying, "NO to H.R. 106," and Armenians wearing green
stickers that said, "Yes to H.R. 106."

A staffer had to start kicking people out, sending them to an overflow
room, and another staffer fought with a Turkish man over seats.

Four older women in wheelchairs sat at the front of the room, wearing
stickers that said, "I am a survivor of the Armenian genocide."

Sirarpi Khoyan, wearing a green jacket and skirt, was 102 years old
and sat in her wheelchair eating yogurt.

"Mine is a very important story," she said.

Mrs. Khoyan was born in Istanbul, and told the story of helping to
pick lice out of a boy’s head whose village had been massacred.

In 1918, when she was 13, her father brought her and her siblings to
America for a vacation. Her brother warned her father not to come back,
and they stayed in America.

Was Turkey’s persecution of the Armenians from 1915 to 1923 genocide?

"Of course it was. There’s no two ways about it," said Mrs. Khoyan.

Abrurrahman Bezirkan, president of the Young Turks Cultural Aid
Society, Inc., felt differently.

"The whole country of Turkey is waiting for this hearing," said Mr.

Bezirkan, who lives in New Jersey.

He said it was important to the country to remain allies with the U.S.,
and said the idea of genocide was "propaganda" and a blackmail scheme
by "the Armenian lobby to get some money."

TURKEY WARNS US OVER GENOCIDE LAW

BBC News, UK

O ct 9 2007

Armenians say many of them died in the systematic deportations Turkey
has warned the US that bilateral ties will suffer if Washington
adopts a bill recognising as genocide the Ottoman empire’s killings
of Armenians.

In a letter to US President George W Bush, Turkish President Abdullah
Gul said "serious problems" would emerge if US lawmakers passed
the bill.

The US House Foreign Affairs Committee is due to discuss the bill
this week.

Ankara rejects Armenian claims that the deaths of some 1.5m Armenians
in 1915-17 amounted to genocide.

It admits that many Armenians were killed, but says the deaths were
a result of widespread wartime fighting in Turkey during World War I.

Armenians have campaigned for the killings to be recognised
internationally as genocide. Some countries have done so.

‘Negative effects’

In his letter, President Gul "drew attention to the serious problems
that will emerge in bilateral relations if the bill is adopted,"
his office said in a statement.

Separately, Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan warned that "it might
take decades to heal negative effects" if the motion was passed.

"Then, it will be difficult to control the dynamics triggered by
Turkish public reaction," Mr Toptan said in a letter to House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi.

Other Turkish leaders have indicated that Ankara could consider
blocking Washington’s use of a key military base in Turkey that
provides logistical support in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The House foreign affairs committee is expected to debate the bill
on Wednesday.

If it is approved, Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi may allow a vote.

However, it would have no binding effect on US foreign policy.

Similar bills in 2000 and 2005 were blocked by senior US politicians.

Last year, Turkey cut military co-operation with France after the
French parliament passed a bill to make denial of the Armenian genocide
an offence – even though it never became law.

ARMENIAN DIPLOMACY’S TASK IS TO COMPETENTLY BIND CONDEMNATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE WITH KARABAKH CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Karabakh Open
Oct 6 2007

Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said President Bush
"reiterated his opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution,
the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey."

Johndroe said Bush believes the Armenian episode ranks among the
greatest tragedies of the 20th century, but the determination whether
"the events constitute a genocide should be a matter for historical
inquiry, not legislation."

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by
Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed
by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.

Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide.

At the U.S. State Department, the senior official who deals with
Turkish relations said the United States position is not to deny or
accept that genocide occurred. Nevertheless, Assistant Secretary of
State Daniel Fried said, "We do not believe this bill would advance
either the cause of historical truth or Turkish-Armenian reconciliation
or the interests of the United States."

The Turkish reaction to passage of the bill would be extremely strong,
Fried said. It would do "grave harm" to relations with Turkey, a NATO
ally, and damage the U.S. war effort in Iraq, Turkey’s neighbor.

The resolution is largely symbolic and would not be binding on
foreign policy. Similar measures have been offered before and
never passed, but it appears to have a good chance of passage in the
Democratic-controlled House if it is brought to a vote, The Associated
Press reports.

The passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution in the U.S. Congress
will irreparably damage the image of the United States and make the
Jewish population a target of criticism in Turkey, Foreign Minister
and Chief EU Negotiator Ali Babacan has said.

"If it is passed, relations with the United States will undoubtedly
be affected very negatively," Babacan said while en route to Turkey
from a visit to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) on
Thursday evening. "It will further damage the U.S. image in Turkey.

We, as the government, can’t prevent it no matter what we do."

"Armenian and Jewish lobbies unite forces against Turks," he said.

"We have told them that we cannot explain it to the public in Turkey
if a road accident happens. We have told them that we cannot keep
the Jewish people out of this."

Babacan said there was a "problem of empathy" that prevents Western
countries from understanding why the issue is a sensitive matter for
Turkey. "They do not understand that this is execution without trial.

They do not understand that 1915 is not a very old date and that
they accuse the grandfathers of dozens of people in Turkey," he said,
Zaman reports.

"This has nothing to do with the current government or the Turkish
public. This is for the tragic effort of Armenians, who we believe
have experienced genocide. If we do not want to experience or witness
such events again, we need to remember the dates of these events and
we need to have them condemned worldwide," he said, Sabah reports.

Turkey has numerously warned the U.S. that passage of the H.Res.106
will cause a split in the Turkish-American relations.

The U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee will hold a vote on the
Armenian Genocide Resolution October 10. The House version of the
Resolution, H.Res.106, was introduced January 30 by lead author Rep.

Adam Schiff. It has 227 co-sponsors, PanARMENIAN.Net reported.

The Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, differs from the ones
passed by the U.S. Congress in 1975 and 1984, director of the ARARAT
Center for Strategic Research, Armen Ayvazyan told a news conference
in Yerevan.

"The resolution defines the timeline from 1915 to 1923 (not 1915 as
it was before). It mentions the precise number of victims – 2 million
deported people, 1.5 million of whom were slaughtered. Moreover,
the resolution does mention that Armenians were killed in their
historical homeland where they had lived for 2.500 years," he said.

"Unfortunately, the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide
is viewed by the Armenian political class as a well-known game with
a chamomile "loves me loves me not," he noted.

Meanwhile, Armenia should measure the resolutions by its own criteria
fitting both historical truth and national interests, according to him.

Dr Ayvazyan pointed out to five criteria for assessment of resolutions
of the kind: correct mention of timeline (1894-1923); obligatory
mention of the fact that Armenians were annihilated in their homeland,
Western Armenia; condemnation of the Ottoman Empire, as the perpetrator
of this crime against humanity, and the Turkish Republic as denier of
the Armenian Genocide; recognition of responsibility of the Turkish
state to Armenia, as mouthpiece of interests of the Armenian nation;
connection between the Armenian Genocide consequences with the current
geopolitical situation in the region, specifically Armenia’s security
issue.

"The point is that the Armenian Genocide had resulted in a grave
territorial problem for Armenians, since the territory for their
settlement had reduced to an extremely dangerous size. The problem
of Artsakh liberation and security of Armenians of Javakhk should
be considered from this angle. The task of Armenian diplomacy is
to competently bind condemnation of Armenian Genocide with Karabakh
conflict resolution," he said.

The U.S. House Foreign Relations Committee will hold a vote on the
Armenian Genocide Resolution October 10. The House version of the
Resolution, H.Res.106, was introduced January 30 by lead author Rep.