[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 78 (Tuesday, June 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4609]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, June 11, I was in Connecticut 
attending the graduation of my daughter, Jeramy Alice Shays, from high 
school and, therefore, missed three recorded votes.
  First, I want to say I missed her 5th grade graduation and her 8th 
grade graduation, and I did not want to miss her senior graduation. It 
is the second, third and fourth votes I have ever missed, and I would 
like to say for the Record that had I been present I would have voted 
yes on recorded vote number 229, yes on recorded vote 230, and yes on 
recorded vote 231.

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