Republican U.S. Senator Blocks Armenian Genocide Resolution December 5, 2019 at 4:49 pm Updated: February 1st, 2021 at 1:57 pm News Armenian News Tweet Share Reddit +1 Pocket LinkedIn U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (Republican-North Dakota) has blocked a resolution that would’ve officially recognized the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century as genocide.