[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 61 (Tuesday, May 14, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S4327]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. LIEBERMAN. Mr. President, I wish to explain my absence from 
yesterday's vote on the nomination of Paul G. Cassell to be U.S. 
District Judge for the District of Utah. After spending yesterday 
working with constituents in Connecticut, I was scheduled to fly back 
to Washington in time to make the vote. Unfortunately, high wind and 
tornado threats caused flights into Washington to be cancelled. I 
ultimately returned to Washington by train and too late to cast my 
vote. Had I been here, I would have cast my vote in the affirmative.

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