[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15546]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mrs. DOLE. I want to explain why I was necessarily absent from the 
June 13 vote on the confirmation of R. Hewitt Pate to be an Assistant 
Attorney General for Antitrust. At the time the vote took place, I was 
speaking to the Flue Cured Tobacco Stabilization Corporation, a group 
of more than 500 North Carolina tobacco farmers, in Raleigh, NC. My 
attendance at the event was important in order to listen to the major 
concerns of our State's tobacco farmers, as well as to address one of 
North Carolina's top priorities, a tobacco quota buyout, which is 
critical to the livelihood of all tobacco farmers and the economic 
security of our State.
  Had I been present, I would have voted for Mr. Pate.

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