[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 19]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 27370]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                        HON. ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 16, 2007

  Mr. CUMMINGS. Madam Speaker, on October 15, 2007, due to obligations 
in the district, I missed the following recorded votes:
  Roll No. 961, on H. Res. 738, expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives regarding the Government of Syria's continued 
interference in the internal affairs of Lebanon; had I been present, I 
would have voted ``aye'';
  Roll No. 962, on H.R. 2089, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 701 Loyola Avenue in New Orleans, 
Louisiana, as the ``Louisiana Armed Service Veterans Post Office; had I 
been present, I would have voted ``aye''; and
  Roll No. 963, on H.R. 20, the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum 
Depression Research Care Act; had I been present, I would have voted 
``aye.''

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