[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12189]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. W. TODD AKIN

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 27, 2001

  Mr. AKIN. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, June 25, I missed three recorded 
votes because my flight from St. Louis was canceled. Had my flight not 
been canceled, I would have voted `as follows on these three 
Resolutions:
  ``Yea'' on H. Res 160, calling on Communist China to release Li 
Shaomin and all other American scholars of Chinese ancestry;
  ``Yea'' on H. Res. 99, expressing the sense of the House that 
Lebanon, Syria and Iran should call upon the Hezbollah to allow Red 
Cross representatives to visit four abducted Israelis presently held by 
Hezbollah forces in Lebanon; and
  ``Yea'' on H. Con. Res. 161, honoring the 19 U.S. servicemen who died 
in the terrorist bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 
1996.

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