{"id":13193,"date":"2017-09-07T12:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=13193"},"modified":"2017-09-07T12:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T12:59:14","slug":"house-passes-valadao-amendment-securing-u-s-funding-for-artsakh-de-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=13193","title":{"rendered":"House Passes Valadao Amendment Securing U.S. Funding for Artsakh De-Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"

— ANCA Backed Life-Saving Measure Overwhelmingly Adopted by Legislators<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House today adopted an amendment by Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) backing continued Congressional appropriations for the HALO Trust’s life-saving de-mining across the interior farmlands and villages of the Artsakh Republic. The decisive move was welcomed by the Armenian National Committee of America<\/a> (ANCA), which spearheaded the launch of Artsakh aid in the 1990s and has, over the past two decades, secured tens of millions of dollars in life-saving U.S. assistance to the independent republic.<\/p>\n

The Valadao Amendment was approved by voice vote, as part of the FY 2018 foreign aid appropriation, which, in turn, is part of a broader spending measure (H.R. 3354), which will be voted on as early as Friday, September 8th. Congressman David Valadao (R-CA), who serves as a Co-Chair of the Congressional Armenian Caucus, was joined in supporting this bipartisan measure by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), House Intelligence Committee Ranking Democrat Adam Schiff (D-CA), and his fellow Armenian Caucus Co-Chairs Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and Jackie Speier (D-CA). Rep. Valadao introduced his measure on the House floor, as part of an en bloc series of amendments, and spoke passionately in support of its adoption.<\/p>\n

Rep. Valadao’s remarks on the House floor:<\/p>\n