[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 14493]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. FRIST. Mr. President, Senator Dole is unable to vote on 
amendments this evening because she is in North Carolina where she 
testified early this afternoon before the BRAC Commission, and this 
evening is with the President at Ft. Bragg in Fayetteville, NC, where 
the President is addressing the Nation on the 1-year anniversary of the 
transfer of sovereignty to the Iraqi people.
  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, last week I traveled to Grand Forks, ND, 
to organize and present testimony at a regional hearing of the Base 
Realignment and Closure, BRAC, Commission on the Grand Forks Air Force 
Base and Fargo's Air National Guard installation. These facilities are 
critically important to our national security and to my State's 
economy. As North Dakota's senior Senator, it was my pleasure and 
responsibility to host the Commission hearing. As a result, I was 
necessarily absent from the Senate and missed rollcall votes No. 145-
153 on the Energy bill.

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