[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7714]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. KILPATRICK. Mr. Speaker, I was unable to attend to several votes 
today. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on H. Res. 952--
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should 
be established a National Teacher Day to honor and celebrate teachers 
in the United States National Teacher Day; ``yea'' on H. Res. 1011--
Calling on the United States Government and the international community 
to promptly develop, fund, and implement a comprehensive regional 
strategy to protect civilians, facilitate humanitarian operations, 
contain and reduce violence, and contribute to conditions for 
sustainable peace and good governance in Chad, as well as in the wider 
region that includes the northern region of the Central African 
Republic and the Darfur region of Sudan; and ``yea'' on H. Res. 1109--
Honoring the memory of Dith Pran by remembering his life's work and 
continuing to acknowledge and remember the victims of genocides that 
have taken place around the globe.

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