[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S6015]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION ON VOTES

 Mr. JOHNSON. Mr. President, in accordance with my request to 
be absent from the Senate during the afternoon of June 17 and June 18, 
pursuant to paragraph 2 of Rule VI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
to attend the funeral of Sebastian Daschle, the father of my colleague 
and good friend from South Dakota, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, 
I missed four different votes. The first three votes were related to S. 
903, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1997. I would 
like to state for the Record how I would have voted in each of those 
instances.
  I would have voted ``yes'' on Senator Bennett's amendment No. 392 to 
S. 903, to express the sense of the Senate on enforcement of the Iran-
Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 with respect to the acquisition 
by Iran of C-802 cruise missiles.
  I would have voted ``yes'' on Senator Feingold's amendment No. 395 to 
S. 903, to eliminate provisions creating a new Federal agency, the 
Broadcasting Board of Governors.
  I would have voted ``yes'' on final passage of S. 903.
  I would have voted ``yes'' on S. 923, legislation to deny veteran's 
benefits to persons convicted of Federal capital offenses.

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