[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 26085]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                          EXPLANATION OF VOTE

  Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent while attending to 
a family member's medical condition during Senate action on rollcall 
votes Nos. 328 and 329.
  Had I been present for the votes, I would have voted as follows: On 
rollcall vote No. 328, adoption of the conference report on H.R. 2684, 
a bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs 
and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2000, I would have agreed to the conference 
report. On rollcall vote No. 329, the motion to table Senate Amendment 
No. 2299, a Reid perfecting amendment to the campaign finance reform 
bill, I would have voted not to table the amendment.

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