[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25615]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. OXLEY. Mr. Speaker, I was absent from the House floor during 
today's rollcall votes on H.R. 2419, the Fiscal Year 2006 Energy and 
Water Development appropriations conference report; H.R. 2862, the 
Fiscal Year 2006 Science, State, Justice, and Commerce appropriations 
conference report; and S. 1894, the Fair Access Foster Care Act.
  Had I been present, I would have voted in favor of each of those 
measures.

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