[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5370]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. ROGER F. WICKER

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Tuesday, March 23, 1999

  Mr. WICKER. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 52, on House Congressional 
Resolution 24, Expressing Congressional Opposition to the Unilateral 
Declaration of a Palestinian State, I was unavailable to vote because I 
was returning from a bipartisan Congressional Delegation trip to 
Russia. The objectives of this four-day trip included meetings with the 
Russian Duma and other governmental officials concerning the missile 
defense threat as outlined in the report of the Rumsfeld Commission. 
Our delegation was joined in Moscow by former Secretary Don Rumsfeld 
and two members of his commission, Mr. Jim Woolsey and Mr. William 
Schneider, Jr.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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