[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20163]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, because of my attending the 
funeral of Officer Rodney Joseph Johnson, a Houston Police Department 
officer who lost his life in the line of duty, I missed the following 
votes:
  Adjournment resolution, rollcall vote 487, if I had been present, I 
would have voted ``no''; the previous question, rollcall vote No. 488, 
if I had been present, I would have voted ``no''; H. Res. 1042, the 
rule regarding the military commissions resolution, rollcall vote 489, 
if I had been present, I would have voted ``no''; on the motion to 
recommit, the Skelton motion that would establish a process for 
expedited judicial review and require reauthorization of the act after 
December 31, 2009, rollcall vote 490, I would have voted ``aye''; 
rollcall vote 491, final passage of H.R. 6166, the Military Commissions 
Act, I would have voted ``no.''

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