[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 121 (Monday, September 14, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H7673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. MINGE. Mr. Speaker, during rollcall vote No. 428, calling on the 
Government of Cuba to extradite to the United States convicted felon 
Joanne Chesinard and all other individuals who have fled the United 
States to avoid prosecution of confinement for criminal offenses and 
who are currently living freely in Cuba, H. Con. Res. 254, I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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