Honorable John Warner
U.S. Senator, Virginia, Republican
John Warner was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978. He is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Environment and Public Works, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and Intelligence committees. The following is from Senator Warner’s October 18, 2007, statement on the floor of the Senate. It is my intent to oppose the nonbinding resolution, passedby the House Foreign Affairs Committee, that states that the deportation ofnearly 2 million Armenians from the Ottoman Empirebetween 1915 and 1923, resulting in the deaths of 1.5 million of them, amountedto genocide. While Ideplore the killings of Armenians 92 years ago…