[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 22823]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                             HON. JIM KOLBE

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 12, 2000

  Mr. KOLBE. Mr. Speaker, on October 10, 2000, I was on an airplane 
returning from my district and missed the following votes: H.R. 208, to 
amend Title 5, U.S. Code, to allow for the contribution of certain 
rollover distributions to accounts in the Thrift Savings Plan; H.R. 
762, the Lupus Research and Care Amendments; and S. 2438, the Pipeline 
Safety Improvement Act.
  Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on all three of these 
votes (#519, #520 and #521).

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