[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12660]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I would like to make it a matter of record 
that on Monday, May 19, 2003, I was unavoidably delayed in arriving in 
the Senate because my United Airlines flight 616 was held on the ground 
with mechanical difficulties and I missed a vote, which was vote No. 
184 relative to the confirmation of Maurice Hicks as U.S. District 
Judge for the Western District of Louisiana. Had I been here, I would 
have voted in the affirmative.

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