[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 8761]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit this 
statement for the Record and regret that I could not be present today, 
Thursday, May 18, 2006 to vote on rollcall vote Nos. 160, 161, 162, 
163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, and 172 due to a family 
medical emergency.
  Had I been present, I would have voted:
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 160 on calling the previous question on 
H. Res. 818--the rule providing for consideration of H.R. 5386--
Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2007;
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 161 on passage of H. Res. 818--the rule 
providing for consideration of H.R. 5386--Department of the Interior, 
Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 
2007;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 162 on suspending the rules and agreeing 
to H. Res. 795--Condemning in the strongest terms the terrorist attacks 
in Dahab and Northern Sinai, Egypt, on April 24 and 26, 2006;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 163 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
fully reopen the Statue of Liberty up to the level of her crown, which 
has been closed since 9/11;
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 164 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
strike all remaining moratoria in the bill on oil and gas drilling on 
the Outer Continental Shelf;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 165 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
prohibit the EPA from raising the threshold which requires reports to 
be issued on toxic chemicals and substances in the Toxics Release 
Inventory;
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 166 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to cut 
$30 million from the National Endowment for the Arts in order to 
provide an increase in funds for the Forest Service's wildfire 
management account;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 167 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
prohibit the awarding of new leases to oil companies in taxpayer-owned 
waters--unless those companies agree to pay royalties for the oil and 
natural gas they are extracting from such areas;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 168 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
prohibit funds in the bill to plan, design, study, or construct roads 
in Tongass National Forest in Alaska for the purpose of harvesting 
timber;
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 169 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
prohibit funds in the Act from being used by the administrator of the 
EPA to implement or enforce the Joint Memorandum published in the 
Federal Register on January 15, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 1995);
  ``Yea'' on rollcall vote No. 170 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to 
prohibit use of funds in the bill to conduct activities in violation of 
the moratorium on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf;
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 171 on an amendment to H.R. 5386 to cut 
all funds in the bill by one percent across-the-board, and;
  ``No'' on rollcall vote No. 172 on passage of H.R. 5386--Department 
of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act 
for Fiscal Year 2007.

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