[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4875]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, because of a previously scheduled event which 
required my attendance at a high school in my congressional district 
this evening, I missed the three rollcall votes under suspension of the 
rules today. In conjunction with the Loudoun County Public Schools' 
Academy of Science, I had invited Dr. Robert Ballard, founder of the 
JASON project, to speak to students and parents at Dominion High School 
in Loudoun County about the importance of science education in our 
Nation's schools. JASON is funded through the Science-State-Justice-
Commerce appropriations subcommittee which I chair. Dr. Ballard also is 
the explorer-in residence at the National Geographic Society and 
discoverer of the RMS Titanic shipwreck.
  Had I been present and voting, I would have voted ``yes'' on H.J. 
Res. 81, providing for the appointment of Phillip Frost as a citizen 
regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution; H. Res. 
703, recognizing the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 
and supporting continued efforts to control radiation and mitigate the 
adverse health consequences related to the Chernobyl nuclear power 
plant, and H. Res. 744, expression support for the Good Friday 
Agreement of 1998 as the blueprint for lasting peace in Northern 
Ireland and support for continued police reform in Northern Ireland as 
a critical element in the peace process.

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