Here is and article that explains the history of this and similar resolutions--New Republic Article on Armenian Genocide and Turkish Lobbying Perhaps it will help Amos and Little Hawk--

For clarification--the Bill started out more than eight years ago as House Bill 398 which became House Resolution 596 and is now House Resolution 106 --


The full text is at the link above, but the heart of the resolution is this, hardly inflamatory, declaration:

The House of Representatives--

1.calls 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 the consequences of the failure to enforce the judgments of the Turkish courts against the responsible officials;

2.calls upon the President in the President's annual message commemorating the Armenian Genocide issued on or about April 24 to characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide and to recall the proud history of United States intervention in opposition to the Armenian Genocide; and

3.calls upon the President in the President's annual message commemorating the Armenian Genocide to state that the modern day Republic of Turkey did not conduct the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.


And, Bearded Bruce--thank you for opening this thread, and thank you for keeping it going--