[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E97]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. BARBARA LEE

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 26, 2005

  Ms. LEE. Mr. Speaker, on January 25, 2005, during rollcall vote No. 8 
and rollcall vote No. 9, I was unavoidably detained due to travel back 
to the United States from Africa where a few of my colleagues and I on 
Chairman Royce's codel learned firsthand about the terrible genocide in 
the Darfur region of Sudan.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``aye'' on both resolutions: 
H. Con. Res. 16, congratulating the Ukrainian people on their recent 
democratic election, and H. Res. 39, commending countries and 
organizations for marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of 
Auschwitz and urging a strengthening of the fight against racism, 
intolerance, bigotry, prejudice, discrimination, and anti-Semitism.

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