[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6260]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. GREG WALDEN

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 16, 2008

  Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. Madam Speaker, on April 10, 2008, I was not 
present to cast a recorded vote on Rollcall No. 182, an amendment 
offered by Representative Jeff Flake to H.R. 2537, the Beach Protection 
Act. As you know, in advance of debate on the Flake Amendment, House 
leadership announced that further consideration of H.R. 2537 would be 
postponed until the week of April 14th, 2008. Had I been present to 
vote on the Flake Amendment, I would have voted ``aye.''
  I was scheduled to be in Medford, Oregon, for a series of events that 
began at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008, including two economic 
stimulus tax clinics with senior citizens and a presentation at Jewett 
Elementary School. This schedule of events required that I travel from 
Washington, DC, to Medford on the evening of April 10, 2008, prior to 
the time that the House voted on the Flake Amendment.

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