[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 82 (Monday, June 22, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4946]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, because I was in my district conducting a 
town meeting, I was absent for rollcall votes 252, 253, 254, 255 and 
256.
  Had I been in attendance, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall 
votes 252, 253, 254, 255, and 256.

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