S. Res. 202: an update

Below is a list of the current co-sponsors of Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell's Senate Resolution 202, the resolution on the Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine that unequivocally calls the Famine a genocide, which was introduced by the Colorado Republican on July 28, 2003. The senators are listed in the order in which they signed on as co-sponsors; any new sponsors are indicated by an asterisk. At present the resolution's sponsors include 10 Republicans and 20 Democrats.

The measure, whose offiicial title is "A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the genocidal Ukraine Famine of 1932-1933," was referred to the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations on July 28, 2003, where it has been stalled.

George Voinovich (R-Ohio)
Mike DeWine (R-Ohio)
George Allen (R-Va.)
Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)
Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Norm Coleman (R-Minn.)
Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.)
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Joe Biden (D-Del.)
Arlen Specter (R-Pa.)
Russ Feingold (D-Wis.)
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Rick Santorum (R-Pa.)
Jon Corzine (D-N.J.)
Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.)
Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
John Kerry (D-Mass.)
Carl Levin (D-Mich.)
Wayne Allard (R-Colo.)
Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)
Mark Dayton (D-Minn.)
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.)
Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Mary Landrieu (D-La.)
Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)
Susan Collins (R-Maine)
Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
*Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.)

NB: Of the 19 members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 10 are co-sponsors - Republicans Allen, Voinovich and Coleman, and Democrats Biden (the ranking minority member), Sarbanes, Boxer, Kerry, Feingold, Corzine and Dodd - of S. Res. 202, while nine committee members - Republicans Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Chuck Hagel (Neb.), Lincoln Chafee (R.I.), Sam Brownback (Kan.), Michael Enzi (Wyo.), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and John Sununu (N.H.), and Democrats, Bill Nelson (Fla.) and Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.) - are not. Sen. Lugar is the Foreign Relations Committee chairman.

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, April 11, 2004, No. 15, Vol. LXXII

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