[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 13]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 18597]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. JO ANN EMERSON

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 19, 2000

  Mrs. EMERSON. Mr. Speaker, on Monday September 18, 2000 1 was 
unavoidably detained in Southeast Missouri. I was reviewing a critical 
flood control project with the Assistant Secretary of the Army for 
Civil Works, Dr. Joe Westphall. Had I been present I would have voted 
aye on roll call votes 477 and 478.

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