[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3405]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I wish to indicate the 
positions I would have taken on votes missed because I was unavoidably 
detained in my district, and, lastly, I was unavoidably detained at a 
meeting with the Dialogue on Diversity.
  On rollcall vote No. 90, H.R. 816, I would have voted ``aye''; 
rollcall vote No. 89, I would have voted ``aye''; rollcall vote No. 88, 
I would have voted ``aye''; rollcall vote No. 87, I would have voted 
``aye''; rollcall vote No. 86, I would have voted ``aye''; rollcall 
vote No. 85, I would have voted ``aye''; and to the Inslee-Sarbanes 
amendment No. 11 to H.R. 2857, I was unavoidably detained with Dialogue 
on Diversity today and I would have voted ``aye.''
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that my positions on these 
legislative initiatives be placed in the appropriate place in the 
Record.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from Texas?
  Mr. PRICE of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, reserving the right to object, I 
wonder in view of the truncated schedule that we have had this 
afternoon, if anyone on the majority side knows if we might be bringing 
up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the FISA Act, the 
bipartisan Senate bill that was passed that we certainly have time to 
deal with this afternoon. I wonder if anyone might be able to let us 
know if we are bringing that up this afternoon.
  Mr. Speaker, continuing to reserve, I know it certainly is an 
important issue. We have had communications from 25 State attorneys 
general.
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw the unanimous 
consent request.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The request is withdrawn.

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