[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1157]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. PORTER. Madam Speaker, due to air transport delays, I was absent 
for the votes on H. Con. Res. 247, expressing the Sense of Congress 
regarding the importance of organ, tissue, bone marrow, and blood 
donation and supporting National Donor Day and H. Con. Res. 76, 
recognizing the social problem of child abuse and neglect and 
supporting efforts to enhance public awareness of it. Had I been 
present, I would have supported the passage of both of these concurrent 
resolutions.

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