[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14392]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. DENNIS MOORE

                               of kansas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 24, 2001

  Mr. MOORE. Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney invited me to 
participate in an event in Kansas City, Missouri, that took note of the 
impending mailing of tax rebate checks to millions of Americans, 
including 877,000 Kansans, as the result of the enactment of H.R. 1836, 
which I supported.
  For this reason, I was absent during the consideration of H.R. 2216, 
which made supplemental appropriations for fiscal year 2001. Had I been 
present for rollcall 256, which was final passage of this conference 
report, I would have voted ``yes''.

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