Honorable Mark Kirk
U.S. Representative, Illinois, Republican
Mark Kirk was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee. The following is from Representative Kirk’s October 10, 2007, statement on the floor of the House of Representatives. For more than 90 years, Armenians were denied recognitionfor the genocide of 1915. We promised in 1945 to never forget the Holocaust, toremember when such atrocities are committed. But the world could well forgetthe first genocide of the twentieth century. In fact, Hitler used the world’sdenial of the Armenian genocide as the justification for his invasion of Poland and the…
