[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8184]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purpose of 
explaining my absence on the last vote. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoidably 
absent during the last rollcall vote No. 467, the passage of the rule 
on the Energy and Water Appropriations Conference Report. I was in a 
lecture with a group of foreign military officers who are attending the 
naval postgraduate school in my district, and I was unable to return to 
the Chamber in time for the vote. Had I been present I would have voted 
``aye.''

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