Thursday, October 11, 2007

Back on Foreign Affairs Committee, Blunt Backs Turkey

Minority Whip Roy Blunt returned to his old seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week just in time to vote against a controversial Armenian genocide resolution.

The death of a Republican House member left a vacancy on the committee, and Blunt quickly filled the slot in order to support the Bush administration's stand against an effort to call the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a genocide.

A House panel approved the "genocide resolution" 27-21, with Blunt voting against it.

Blunt's move to the committee is temporary until Republican leaders select a permanent member.

1 comment:

boyd said...

Let's not forget to mention that Ottoman Turks who were Moslem, did the killing, then all the facts will be out!