[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6846-S6847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I would like to make it a matter of record 
that on Monday, May 19, 2003, I was unavoidably delayed in arriving in 
the Senate because my United Airlines

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flight 616 was held on the ground with mechanical difficulties and I 
missed a vote, which was vote No. 184 relative to the confirmation of 
Maurice Hicks as U.S. District Judge for the Western District of 
Louisiana. Had I been here, I would have voted in the affirmative.

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