[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 13329]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

 Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I will be necessarily absent from 
the business of the Senate for a portion of today in order to attend 
the high school graduation ceremonies for my son. I will also 
necessarily be absent from the Senate beginning tomorrow afternoon and 
continuing into late afternoon Thursday, in order to join my colleagues 
from North Dakota and Minnesota to attend the hearings of the base-
closing commission that are being held in Grand Forks, ND. I have 
notified the leadership of these expected absences.

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