[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13024]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EXPLANATION OF VOTE

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I was absent yesterday during that most 
important vote that was cast on S. 2673. Friday morning I spoke to the 
importance of that legislation and the importance that we move it 
rapidly. I was extremely pleased that happened. I knew I would be in 
Idaho yesterday. The Secretary of Energy was with me in Idaho Falls to 
announce a new mission for our National Laboratory, the INEEL, so I was 
unable to make that vote.
  Had I been here, I would certainly have been with the unanimous 
majority who supported that very important piece of legislation. It is 
time we restore within the American people confidence that corporate 
America is doing all it can to manage its affairs appropriately and 
honestly for the integrity of the stock in which the citizens of our 
country invest.
  That is important legislation. I hope we can move quickly now to get 
it to the President's desk after a conference with the House so that 
the American people know that it is law, know that there are penalties 
for the bad actors and the criminal activity that has occurred in 
certain instances at the corporate level.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Nevada.

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