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  • ANCA-ER Freshman Outreach Campaign Focuses On Reps. Kosmas And Schoc

    ANCA-ER FRESHMAN OUTREACH CAMPAIGN FOCUSES ON REPS. KOSMAS AND SCHOCK

    http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/08/02/ anca-er-freshman-outreach-campaign-focuses-on-reps -kosmas-and-schock/
    August 2, 2009

    WASHINGTON-Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Eastern Region
    interim executive director Raffi Karakashian and Florida ANC activist
    Taleen Mekhdjavakian reached out to freshmen Representatives Suzanne
    Kosmas (D-Fla.) and Aaron Schock (R-Ill.) recently to rally support
    for Armenian Genocide legislation and discuss a range of interests
    to the Armenian American community.

    Mekhdjavakian, an Orlando resident in Washington as part of the ANCA
    Leo Sarkisian Internship program, urged Kosmas to co-sponsor H.Res.252,
    the Armenian Genocide Resolution, citing the growing number of freshman
    Representatives supporting the measure. Kosmas serves on the Financial
    Services and Science and Technology committees.

    Karakashian and Mekhdjavakian then briefly met with Schock of Peoria,
    Ill., noting that his predecessor, Ray LaHood, who currently serves as
    Secretary of Transportation, had co-sponsored the Armenian Genocide
    Resolution, H.Res.106, during the 110th Congress. Schock, the youngest
    Member of Congress, currently serves on three House committees:
    Transportation and Infrastructure, Small Business, and Oversight and
    Government Reform.

    The meetings were part of an expanding ANCA-ER campaign to educate
    freshmen Representatives on issues of concern to the Armenian American
    community. Over the past several months, ANCA representatives in
    Washington and east of the Mississippi have been holding meetings in
    support of Armenian Genocide legislation, expanded foreign assistance
    to Armenia, and self-determination for Nagorno-Karabagh, among other
    local ANC initiatives.

    The ANCA-ER is part of the largest and most influential Armenian
    American grassroots political organization.

    Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and
    supporters throughout the United States and affiliated organizations
    around the world, the ANCA-ER actively advances the concerns of the
    Armenian American community on a broad range of issues.
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