[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8840]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. ROB PORTMAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 8, 2003

  Mr. PORTMAN. Mr. Speaker, on April 7, 2003, I was unavoidably 
detained at a leadership meeting and missed the vote on rollcall No. 
109 on H.R. 1055, the Roswell N. Beck Post Office Building Designation 
Act.
  Had I been present, I would have voted, ``yes.''

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