[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11212]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. MICHAEL BILIRAKIS

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 26, 1999

  Mr. BILIRAKIS. Mr. Speaker, on May 20, 1999, I missed the vote on the 
motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R. 4, the National 
Missile Defense Act of 1999, because I was unavoidably detained. Had I 
been present, I would have voted ``aye.''

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