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    ONE MORE PARLIAMENTARIAN OF ARMENIAN ORIGIN BECOMES MEMBER OF US CONGRESS

    Azeri Press Agency
    April 10 2008
    Azerbaijan

    Los-Angeles. Husniyya Hasanova-APA. Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier
    has won the Special Election for the vacated United States House of
    Representatives seat of late Congressman Tom Lantos and will be sworn
    into office April 10, 2008, APA US bureau reports.

    Speier was elected in 1998 as California State Senator. Lantos endorsed
    Speier as his successor.

    Speier is of Armenian and German descent. She has been the initiator
    of several legislative acts on so-called "Armenian genocide" in
    California Senate. She made a draft law on the legal recognition of
    so-called "Armenian genocide" in 2005. She put draft law on appeals
    of Armenians, who lost their properties in 1915 to the vote and the
    Senate voted for the document. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed
    the law in 2006 and the document came into force.

    Speier is the second MP of Armenian origin elected to US Congress.

    Another Congressman of Armenian origin from California is Anna
    G. Eshoo.
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