[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 12395-12396]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. SAM GRAVES

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 15, 2004

  Mr. GRAVES. Mr. Speaker, on Monday, June 14, 2004, I was unavoidably 
detained and thus missed rollcall votes #232, #233, #234 and #235. Had 
I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on #232, approving the 
renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese Freedom and 
Democracy Act of 2003; ``yea'' on #233, expressing the sense of 
Congress with respect to the need to provide prostate cancer patients 
with meaningful access to information on treatment options; ``yea'' on 
#234, to provide rapid acquisition authority to the Secretary of 
Defense to respond to combat emergencies; and ``yea'' on #235, honoring 
former President George Herbert Walker Bush on the occasion of his 80th 
birthday.

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