[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 19079]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. MICHAEL M. HONDA

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                     Wednesday, September 22, 2004

  Mr. HONDA. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday September 21, I was unavoidably 
detained for rollcall votes that day.
  Had I been present I would have voted the following:
  Rollcall 457, on the Van Hollen amendment prohibiting any funds in 
H.R. 5025--Transportation, Treasury, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act for FY 2005, from being used to implement the 
administration's ``OMB Circular A-76'' contracting out/privatization 
initiative, I would have voted ``yea'', rollcall 458, on the Sanders-
Miller amendment prohibiting funds in H.R. 5025 from being used to 
overturn a 2003 judicial ruling, which held that cash-balance pension 
conversions violate anti- age discrimination statutes, I would have 
voted ``yea'', and on rollcall 459, on the Norton Amendment prohibiting 
Federal Employee Health Plans from offering high deductible plans that 
do not require at least a 3-year minimum enrollment, I would have voted 
``yea''.

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