[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Page 22602]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. HATCH. Mr. President, I rise today to inform my colleagues as to 
why I missed voting on the motion to table Senator Coburn's amendment 
No. 2005 to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006. At the 
time the vote occurred, I was attending the funeral of a longtime 
employee and friend, Shawn Bentley.
  Should I have been present, I would have voted in favor of tabling 
the amendment, which would not have changed the outcome of the vote.

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