[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 1347-1348]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. RUBEN HINOJOSA

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 16, 2000

  Mr. HINOJOSA. Mr. Speaker, the following is a list of rollcall votes 
I recently missed and how I would have voted had I been present:


                            January 31, 2000

  No. 2--Days of Remembrance: H. Con. Res. 244, Holocaust remembrance. 
Yea.
  No. 3--Hillory J. Farias Date-Rape Prevention Act, Senate amendments 
to H.R. 2130. Yea.

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                            February 1, 2000

  No. 4--Child Abuse Prevention & Enforcement Act, Senate amendment to 
H.R. 764. Yea.
  No. 5--Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, H.R. 1838. Yea.
  No. 6--Motion to Instruct Conferees on H.R. 2990, Quality Care for 
the Uninsured Act. Yea.


                            February 2, 2000

  No. 7--Workplace Goods Job Growth and Competitiveness Act, H.R. 2005. 
Nay.


                            February 8, 2000

  No. 8--Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, Senate amendment to 
H.R. 1415. Yea.
  No. 9--Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness, S. 632. Yea.
  No. 10--Honoring the Former Speaker of the House, Carl B. Albert, H. 
Res. 418. Yea.


                           February 10, 2000

  No. 11--Journal for Wednesday, 2/9/00. Yea.
  No. 12--Rule (Marriage Tax Penalty Relief). Nay.
  No. 13--Rangel substitute (Marriage Tax Penalty Relief). Yea.
  No. 14--Hill of Indiana motion to recommit (Marriage Tax Penalty 
Relief). Aye.
  No. 15--Marriage Tax Penalty Relief Act (final passage), H.R. 6. Nay.


                           February 14, 2000

  No. 16--National Donor Day, H. Con. Res. 247. Yea.
  No. 17--Child Abuse and Neglect, H. Con. Res. 76. Yea.


                           February 15, 2000

  No. 18--H.R. 3557, Gold Medal for Cardinal O'Connor. Yea.
  No. 19--H.R. 3642, Gold Medal to Charles M. Schulz. Yea.
  No. 20--H.R. 3201, Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site 
Study Act. Yea.
  No. 21--Approval of the Journal for Monday, February 14, 2000. Yea.

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