[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14816]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  (At the request of Mr. REID, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.)

                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

 Mr. REED. Mr. President, I am necessarily absent today to 
attend funeral services for the former Rhode Island Superior Court's 
Presiding Justice, Anthony A. Giannini, in Providence.
  Were I present today, I would vote ``yea'' on Executive Calendar No. 
218, the nomination of R. Hewitt Pate to be an Assistant Attorney 
General.

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