[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15156]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                           HON. JOHN H. ADLER

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                         Monday, June 15, 2009

  Mr. ADLER of New Jersey. Madam Speaker, on Friday, June 12th, I was 
unable to vote on rollcall vote 335 because I was welcoming the New 
Jersey National Guard home from Iraq.
  The pending matter was H.R. 1256, the Family Smoking Prevention and 
Tobacco Control Act, which grants the FDA authority over the 
advertising and marketing of tobacco products.
  This legislation is important to my constituents in New Jersey's 
Third Congressional District because tobacco is the number one cause of 
preventable death in America.
  Had I been present, I would have voted in the following manner.
  Roll call vote 335 (Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment to H.R. 
1256) I would have voted ``yes.''

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