[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I was in constituent meetings in my 
congressional district on Monday, March 29, 2004. As such, I was absent 
from the House floor during the rollcall votes on H.R. 2584, providing 
for the conveyance of a decommissioned National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration ship to the Utrok Atoll local government, and H.R. 3723, 
the Vaughn Gross Post Office Building Designation Act. Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``yea'' on each of these bills.

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