[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 11, 2008)]
[House]
[Page H5300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I would like to place on the Record the 
following: That this afternoon when the House voted on H.R. 6003, 
rollcall 400, I would have voted ``yes'' on the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act as I have fully supported its intent and 
worked with the distinguished chairman, Mr. Oberstar, to include the 
Cleveland-Toledo-Chicago Corridor in that bill, and as a member of the 
Transportation Housing Subcommittee of Appropriations with 
responsibility for funding the effort. However, at the time of the 
vote, after voting ``no'' on the prior motion to recommit, when that 
vote was held open for 15 minutes I left the Chamber to locate 226 high 
school students from Timber Stone Junior High School in my district, 
who were nowhere to be found on either the east or west side of the 
Capitol. When I came back to the floor, the vote had been reduced to 5 
minutes and I was not able to record my final vote as ``yes'' on the 
final vote. I wanted to place that on the Record.

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