[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 4010-4011]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. ROBERT E. ANDREWS

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 16, 2006

  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I regret that I missed five votes on March 
15, 2006. I stayed in New Jersey to be with a family member who was 
undergoing surgery. Had I been

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present, I would have voted no on Ordering the Previous Question (with 
regard to H.R. 4939, making emergency supplemental appropriations for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes); no 
on H. Res. 725 (the rule providing for consideration of H.R. 4939); yes 
on H. Con. Res. 190 (Expressing the sense of Congress that the Russian 
Federation should fully protect the freedoms of all religious 
communities without distinction, whether registered and unregistered, 
as stipulated by the Russian Constitution and international standards); 
no on the Gilchrest Amendment (which strikes language in the H.R. 4939 
that would block the Dubai Port World deal); and yes on H.R. 4944 (To 
amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to modify 
temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other technical amendments 
to the trade laws, and for other purposes).

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