[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 25491]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

  Mr. ROCKEFELLER. Mr. President, I was absent from the Senate on the 
morning of Friday, October 27, 2000, during the vote on the motion to 
proceed to consideration of the conference report accompanying H.R. 
2415, which contains the pending bankruptcy reform legislation. I was 
unable to return to the Senate in time for this unscheduled vote due to 
a commitment Friday morning in Charleston, West Virginia. Had I been in 
attendance in the Senate during that vote, I would have voted to 
proceed to the bankruptcy legislation.
  My vote would not have changed the outcome of the vote on the motion 
to proceed.

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