[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 13069]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. ADAM H. PUTNAM

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 11, 2001

  Mr. PUTNAM. Mr. Speaker, I was absent the week of June 25, 2001, 
attending to my wife Melissa during the birth of our first child, 
Abigail Anna Putnam. Had I been present this is how I would have voted 
on the following roll call votes.
  June 25, 2001:
  On Roll Call 186--I would have voted Yea in support of H. Res. 160 
calling on the Government of the People's Republic of China to 
immediately and unconditionally release Li Shaomin and all other 
American scholars of Chinese ancestry being held in detention, and 
calling on the President of the United States to continue working on 
behalf of Li Shaomin and the other detained scholars for their release.
  On Roll Call 187--I would have voted Yea in support of H. Res. 99 
expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Lebanon, 
Syria, and Iran should call upon Hezbollah to allow representatives of 
the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit four abducted 
Israelis, Adi Avitan, Binyamin Avraham, Omar Souad, and Elchanan 
Tannenbaum, presently held by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon.
  On Roll Call 188--I would have voted Yea in support of H. Con. Res. 
161 honoring the 19 United States servicemen who died in the terrorist 
bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996.
  June 26, 2001:
  On Roll Call 189--I would have voted Yea on Approving the Journal.
  On Roll Call 190--I would have voted Yea on the motion to consider H. 
Res. 178.
  On Roll Call 191--I would have voted Yea on agreeing to H. Res. 178 
providing for the consideration of H.R. 2299, Transportation and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY 2002.
  On Roll Call 192--I would have voted Yea on agreeing to H. Res. 166 
recognizing disaster relief Assistance Provided to Houston, TX after 
Tropical Storm Allison.
  On Roll Call 193--I would have voted Yea on the Sabo amendment to 
H.R. 2299.
  On Roll Call 194--I would have voted Yea in support of H.R. 2299, the 
Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for FY 2002.
  On Roll Call 195--I would have voted Yea on agreeing to the approval 
of the Journal.
  On Roll Call 196--I would have voted Yea on agreeing to H. Res. 180, 
providing for consideration of H.R. 2311; Energy and Water Development 
Appropriations Act for FY 2002.
  On Roll Call 197--I would have voted Yea on H. Res. 172 honoring John 
J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, who lost their lives in the 
course of duty as firefighters.
  On Roll Call 198--I would have voted Yea on H.R. 2213 to establish a 
commission for the purpose of encouraging and providing for the 
commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in 
Brown v. Board of Education.
  June 28, 2001:
  On Roll Call 199--I would have voted Nay on the Tancredo amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 200--I would have voted Nay on the Tancredo amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 201--I would have voted Nay on the Hinchey amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 202--I would have voted Nay on the Kucinich amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 203--I would have voted Nay on the Bonior amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 204--I would have voted Nay on the Berkley amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 205--I would have voted Yea on the Davis amendment to 
H.R. 2311.
  On Roll Call 206--I would have voted Yea on final passage of H.R. 
2311, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for FY 2002.
  On Roll Call 207--I would have voted Yea on H. Res. 183, providing 
for consideration of H.R. 2330; Agriculture Appropriations Act for F.Y. 
2002.
  On Roll Call 208--I would have voted Yea on the Brown of Ohio 
amendment to H.R. 2330.
  On Roll Call 209--I would have voted Yea on the Brown of Ohio 
amendment to H.R. 2330.
  On Roll Call 210--I would have voted Yea on the Engel amendment to 
H.R. 2330.

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