[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21347]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall votes 514, 515, 516, 517 
and 518, I was absent. I was in my district, touring flood damage in 
the Presidentially-declared federal disaster area, with the Director of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Had I been present, I would 
have voted ``aye'' on each of those votes.

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