[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 8, 1997)]
[Senate]
[Page S10624]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

  Mr. BIDEN. Mr. President, I rise very briefly to explain my absence 
on rollcall vote No. 271. This was a procedural vote to instruct the 
Sergeant at Arms. I was attending a conference with Ambassador Richard 
Holbrooke and was involved in a discussion of Bosnia and the 
enforcement of the Dayton Peace accords. I was unable to return to the 
Senate for the vote.

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