[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 734]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            VOTE EXPLANATION

  Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, last night, due to airline flight delays in 
South Dakota and Minneapolis, I missed the rollcall vote on H.R. 4986, 
the amended version of the Department of Defense authorization bill. 
Had I been present for this vote, I would have voted ``yes''--similar 
to my vote in December when the Senate initially passed H.R. 1585, the 
conference report to the Department of Defense authorization bill.

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