Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar did not vote in favor of a bipartisan resolution recognizing the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as a genocide.
The firebrand Minnesota Democrat, who voted “present,” told CNN in a statement that she voted that way because the resolution didn’t also recognize “earlier mass slaughters.” She also said that she didn’t want the recognition to “be used as a cudgel in a political fight.”
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