[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 77 (Friday, June 17, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 17, 1994]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. ARCHER. Mr. Speaker, following up on what our chairman said, we 
were assured as we deliberated in the Committee on Ways and Means 
across the street in the Longworth Building that the vote would be held 
open on the floor so that we would be able to make that vote. We were 
in the process of actually voting on an extremely important amendment 
to health care. With the assurance that we would have time to walk 
across the street and to vote before the gavel went down and closed the 
vote, we continued to be there. We had to be there, as far as I was 
concerned, because it was a vote on my amendment that I had to be there 
for.
  Mr. Speaker, had I been on the floor of the House at the time that 
vote had been taken, I would have voted ``no.''

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