Recognizing the Armenian Genocide.... "Present" - Sack cartoon

[Kaleva]

4. Wonder why the catroonist left out Eddie Johnson (TX) who also voted present?

When a similar bill came up in 2009:

"Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, an eight-term legislator from Dallas, Texas, is attacking U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a “one-sided” view of a “historic dispute.”

In a letter circulated on February 25th to all 434 of her House colleagues, she dismissed the Armenian Genocide as an “inter-communal war.”

The Congresswoman’s line of attack, long ago discredited by historians and genocide scholars, is a particularly toxic form of denial that seeks, without any basis in fact, to create parity between perpetrator and victim. Her letter attempts to equate the full force of the Ottoman Empire’s vast military with the unarmed and impoverished Armenian population destroyed by its brutal and systematic campaign of race extermination."

http://asbarez.com/60265/call-texas-congresswoman-who-opposes-genocide-bill/

Also from 2009:

"Bernice Johnson, who circulated a Feb. 25 “Dear Colleague” letter about Schiff’s measure, was asked, “Do you acknowledge that there was a genocide?”

Bernice Johnson initially responded, “I don’t acknowledge, I was not around.”

Pressed further on whether she acknowledges the genocide, Bernice Johnson said, “No, I don’t.”

Reacting to Bernice Johnson’s statements, Aram Hamparian, executive director of the Armenian National Committee on America, said, “I am saddened to hear that a member of Congress would say this.”"

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/18702-armenian-genocide-debate-reignites