[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 21 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H878]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, on rollcall No. 39 I was unavoidably 
detained at the White House meeting with the President on the Medicare 
Commission. Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.''

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