[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16736]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, as my colleagues know, I had to return 
home to Washington state on Thursday of last week to attend the funeral 
of Mr. Bernie Whitebear. Unfortunately, I missed a series of roll call 
votes on H.R. 4461, the fiscal year 2001 agriculture appropriations 
bill, and the vote on the Conference Report of H.R. 4810, marriage tax 
penalty legislation. I wanted to take this opportunity to state for the 
Record how I would have voted had I been present.
  On Roll Call Vote Number 221, the Harkin Amendment Number 3938, I 
would have voted ``Yea.''
  On Roll Call Vote Number 222, the Wellstone Amendment Number 3919, I 
would have voted ``Yea.''
  On Roll Call Vote Number 223, the Specter Amendment Number 3958, I 
would have voted ``Yea.''
  On Roll Call Vote Number 224, on the question of whether the Durbin 
Amendment Number 3980 is germane to H.R. 4461, I would have voted 
``Yea.''
  On Roll Call Vote Number 225, on final passage of H.R. 4461, I would 
have voted ``Yea.''
  On Roll Call Vote Number 226, on final passage of the Conference 
Report of H.R. 4810, I would have voted ``Nay.''

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