[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 21418]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                       HON. WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON

                              of louisiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 5, 2003

  Mr. JEFFERSON. Mr. Speaker, on Friday, July 25, 2003, I was 
unavoidably detained and missed Rollcall vote No. 445, final passage 
vote on H.R. 2427, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to promulgate regulations for the reimportation of 
prescription drugs, and for other purposes. If I had voted, I would 
have voted ``no.''

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