[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5375]
[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. 50, on House Congressional 
Resolution 819, Federal Maritime Commission Authorization Act of 1999, 
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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