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    ANCA BACKS CONGRESSMAN MCCAUL, OPPONENT TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE DENIAL CAMPAIGN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    03.11.2008 14:43 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian National Committee - Political Action
    Committee (ANC-PAC) has endorsed Congressman McCaul's reelection
    campaign, ANCA told PanARMENIAN.Net.

    Congressman Michael McCaul, a conservative Lone Star State Republican,
    is now locked in a close race against Democratic lawyer Larry Joe
    Doherty. According to Congressional Quarterly Politics, the latest
    polls in the race show that McCaul is only narrowly ahead of Doherty,
    despite the fact that President Bush carried his congressional district
    with 61 percent of the vote in 2004.

    Despite a personal phone call from President Bush in October of 2007
    urging him to participate in Turkey's denial of the Armenian Genocide,
    Congressman Michael McCaul politely refused. In fact, days later
    he would vote, as a member of the powerful House Foreign Affairs
    Committee, to pass the Armenian Genocide resolution (H.Res.106).

    "We are pleased that a number of ANC-PAC supporters are providing
    financial support and assistance on the ground for Congressman McCaul
    in Texas' 10th District," remarked an ANC-PAC spokesperson. "The
    Armenian American community in and around Austin understands that
    Congressman McCaul is a principled leader on human rights issues and
    look forward to voting for him on November 4th," added the spokesperson
    According to a report required by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
    (FARA), a lobbying company hired by a foreign government, the Republic
    of Turkey, has consistently sought to urge the Congressman to deny
    the Armenian Genocide. Led by the former House Democratic Leader
    Dick Gephardt, the DLA Piper lobbying firm has repeatedly sought
    to encourage McCaul to ignore the murder of 1.5 million Armenian
    Christians by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Impressively, Congressman
    McCaul has rejected all efforts by Turkish lobbying firms to deny the
    reality of the Armenian Genocide. FARA was enacted in 1938 and is a
    disclosure statute that requires persons acting as agents of foreign
    principals in a political or quasi-political capacity to make periodic
    public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal,
    as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of
    those activities.

    Congressman McCaul is currently serving his second term representing
    Texas' 10th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 10th
    Congressional District in the Lone Star State stretches across 8
    counties from Austin to the Houston suburbs, and includes Austin,
    Bastrop, Burleson, Harris, Lee, Travis, Washington and Waller
    Counties. Prior to coming to Congress, Michael McCaul served as Chief
    of Terrorism and National Security in the U.S. Attorney's office in
    Texas, and led the Joint Terrorism Task Force charged with detecting,
    deterring and preventing terrorist activity. Congressman McCaul also
    served as Texas Deputy Attorney General under current U.S. Senator
    John Cornyn, and served as a federal prosecutor in the Department of
    Justice's Public Integrity Section in Washington, D.C.

    Congressman McCaul is a fourth generation Texan, who earned a
    B.A. in Business and History from Trinity University and holds a
    J.D. from St. Mary's University School of Law. He is also a graduate
    of the Senior Executive Fellows Program of the School of Government,
    Harvard University.
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