[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9098]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I missed rollcall 
votes 127, 128, and 129 earlier today. I was in a meeting with the five 
Central American presidents in town today to discuss the Central 
American Free Trade Agreement. Had I been present, I would have voted 
``yes'' on all three bills: the Conference Report on S. 151, the 
PROTECT Act; H. Con. Res. 141, expressing the sense of the Congress 
that the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 should be fundamentally reformed 
to be fairer, simpler, and less costly and to encourage economic 
growth, individual liberty, and investment in American jobs; and H. 
Res. 165, expressing support for a renewed effort to find a peaceful, 
just, and lasting settlement to the Cyprus problem.

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