[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13895]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. McDERMOTT. Madam Speaker, on rollcall Nos. 462 and 463, I was 
unavoidably detained on legislative business away from the Capitol. Had 
I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on both.

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