[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 378-379]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I was unavoidably detained 
on

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yesterday, January 16, in the rollcall vote No. 11, H.R. 4986, the 
defense authorization bill.
  If I had been present, because of the continued support of the Iraq 
war, I would have voted ``no.''

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