[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13781]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, on Thursday, June 17, 1999 and Friday June 
18, 1999, I was not present during Senate action on rollcall vote No. 
174, a motion to table Senator McCain's amendment No. 685; rollcall 
vote No. 175, a motion to table Senator Murkowski's amendment No. 686; 
and rollcall vote No. 176, H.R. 1664, the Emergency Steel, and Oil and 
Gas Loan Guarantee Act. Yesterday, I was not present during Senate 
action on rollcall vote No. 177, Senator Sarbane's amendment to S. 886, 
the State Department reauthorization bill. During these times, I was in 
Connecticut attending to matters related to my marriage on June 18, 
1999, to Jackie M. Clegg.
  Had I been present for these votes, I would have voted aye in each 
case.

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