[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 159 (Tuesday, December 13, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2510]
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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. JIM MARSHALL

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 13, 2005

  Mr. MARSHALL. Mr. Speaker, I intended to vote against the U.S.-
Bahrain Free Trade Agreement and attempted to do so. Upon inquiring 
with the clerk why my vote was recorded as a ``yes'' instead of a 
``no'', the clerk checked the electronic record and discovered that I 
had pressed the ``no'' button several times on the preceding vote. At 
no time did I intend to cast a ``yes'' vote on the agreement. To date, 
I have voted against every trade agreement that has come up while I 
have been in Congress, including the agreement with Bahrain.




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