[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 87 (Friday, June 13, 2003)]
[Senate]
[Page S7875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

 Mr. REED. Mr. President, I am necessarily absent today to 
attend funeral services for the former Rhode Island Superior Court's 
Presiding Justice, Anthony A. Giannini, in Providence.
  Were I present today, I would vote ``yea'' on Executive Calendar No. 
218, the nomination of R. Hewitt Pate to be an Assistant Attorney 
General.

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