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THIRD READING
Bill No: AJR 41
Author: Ian Calderon (D) and Wilk (R), et al.
Amended: 4/24/14 in Assembly
Vote: 21
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-1, 4/24/14 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Armenian and Assyrian Genocide
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution commends the extraordinary service
delivered by Near East Relief to the survivors of the Armenian
Genocide and the Assyrian Genocide.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1.During the Armenian Genocide of 1915 through 1923, 1.5 million
men, women, and children of Armenian descent lost their lives
at the hands of the Young Turks regime then ruling the Ottoman
Empire in its attempt to systematically eliminate the Armenian
race.
2.In response to the Genocide and at the behest of President
Woodrow Wilson and the United States State Department, the
Near East Relief organization was founded and was provided
unprecedented complete access to all U.S. Government documents
and files concerning the plight of Christian minorities.
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3.Near East Relief was the first congressionally sanctioned
American philanthropic effort created exclusively to rescue
the Armenian nation and other Christian minorities from
annihilation after U.S. Ambassador to Constantinople, Henry A.
Morgenthau, Jr., pled for assistance after personally
witnessing the systematic massacre of Armenians.
4.Near East Relief's efforts resulted in delivering $117 million
in assistance between 1915 and 1930, including the delivery of
food, clothing, and materials for shelter, and setting up
refugee camps, clinics, hospitals, and orphanages.
5.The generous philanthropy of the American people, including
many Californians, directly resulted in the salvation of the
Armenian and Assyrian refugees and prevented them from being
completely annihilated by the Genocide by saving more than one
million refugees, including more than 130,000 orphans, through
their humanitarian assistance.
This resolution commends the extraordinary service delivered by
Near East Relief to the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and
the Assyrian Genocide, including thousands of direct
beneficiaries of American philanthropy who are the parents,
grandparents and great-grandparents of many Californian
Armenians and Assyrians.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 5/5/14)
Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 74-1, 4/24/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Ian Calderon,
Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dababneh,
Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier,
Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell,
Grove, Hagman, Hall, Roger Hern�ndez, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nestande, Olsen, Pan,
Patterson, Perea, V. Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon,
Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner,
Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, John A.
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P�rez
NOES: Buchanan
NO VOTE RECORDED: Gray, Harkey, Mansoor, Nazarian, Vacancy
AL:k 5/7/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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