[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 80 (Wednesday, June 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 22, 1994]
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                             TIMES OF VOTES

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, my message is a brief one. It is, 
primarily, a message to the leadership of the Democratic Cloakroom, and 
it concerns the vote today that was scheduled at 1:30.
  I recognize we all try to accommodate each other, but this happens to 
be the 50th anniversary of the GI bill, and as the ranking Republican 
member on the Veterans Committee, I was asked to be down at the White 
House to commemorate that. The time of the ceremony was from 1 to 2 
o'clock.
  I made a number of telephone calls to our Cloakroom and was advised 
that the Democratic Cloakroom indicated that there would be votes at 
1:30, and there were to be no exceptions. As a consequence, I changed 
my plans and could not make the appointment down at the White House for 
the 50th anniversary. Then I found out, when it was too late, that, 
indeed, they had made accommodation for a Member of the other side and 
postponed votes.
  I hope that in the future we could coordinate a little better, in a 
bipartisan spirit, in a spirit of trying to accommodate each side. I 
recognize that these things will occur from time to time. This is one 
of the times when it did occur. I checked with our Cloakroom up until 
the last minute. Clearly they were being advised that there would be 
votes at 1:30.
  So this message is delivered from the very inconvenient standpoint of 
one who missed commitments I had made. I wanted the Record to so note, 
and hopefully we can accommodate each other in an appropriate manner in 
the future.

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