[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9342]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 12, 2004

  Mr. ROGERS of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, on the legislative day of 
Thursday, May 6, 2004, the House had a vote on H. Res. 402, a 
resolution urging the Lao People's Democratic Republic to provide 
unrestricted access to Laos for international election monitors and 
humanitarian aid workers. On House rollcall vote #149, I was 
unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''

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