[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 16343]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

  Mr. WELLSTONE. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent today for 
rollcall vote No. 228, on the motion to invoke cloture on the motion to 
proceed to S. 2507, the intelligence authorization bill. I was in 
Minnesota visiting with my constituents in Granite Falls who were 
victims of a tornado which struck the city last night and caused severe 
damage and some loss of life. Had I been present, I would have voted 
aye on the motion.

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