[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11817]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

                                 ______
                                 

                         HON. JAMES P. McGOVERN

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, June 7, 1999

  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, because of weather-related travel 
difficulties, I was unfortunately detained in Massachusetts on Monday, 
May 24, 1999 and missed votes as a result. Had I been here, I would 
have voted in the following way: I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall 
votes 145 and 146.

                          ____________________