[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 22866]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, because I was unavoidably 
detained with constituents, I would like to acknowledge that my vote 
would have been ``aye'' in rollcall vote No. 737, the Medicare Premium 
Fairness Act, on Thursday, September 24, 2009.
  Likewise, I was unavoidably detained in a meeting with the Vice 
President, and I would like to indicate that my votes today on passage 
of H.R. 905, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater 
Preserve Boundary Modification Act, rollcall vote No. 740, would have 
been ``aye''; H. Res. 16, supporting the goals and ideals of the 
National Life Insurance Awareness Month, rollcall vote 741, would have 
been ``aye''; and adoption of motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 
2997, Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010, rollcall vote 742, would 
have been ``no.''

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