[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 2575]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. KLECZKA. Mr. Speaker, today I was not present for legislative 
session on the floor due to personal business. However, the issue 
before the House today was the same one that we had already considered 
in the 107th Congress. In fact H.R. 1997 is identical to the bill in 
the 107th, H.R. 503, which passed the House on April 26, 2001, by a 
vote of 252 to 172. Had I been present, my votes would have been cast 
the same way I did in 2001: ``yes'' on the Lofgren substitute 
amendment, and ``no'' on passage of the underlying bill, H.R. 1997.

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