[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 25857]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                         HON. LAURA RICHARDSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, October 27, 2009

  Ms. RICHARDSON. Madam Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to address the 
House for 1 minute and revise and extend my remarks.
  On Monday, October 26, and Friday, October 23, I was unavoidably 
delayed on my return to Washington from American Samoa and Samoa where 
I had been monitoring ongoing relief and recovery efforts of FEMA and 
others currently underway in response to the devastating earthquake and 
tsunami that struck those islands on September 29. As the Member of 
Congress with the nation's largest concentration of Samoan Americans on 
the mainland and as a member of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure, undertaking this fact-finding mission was directly 
related to my representational, legislative, and committee 
responsibilities.
  Because of this excused absence I was not present for rollcall votes 
814 through 815.
  Had I been present I would have voted as follows:
  1. On rollcall No. 814. I would have voted aye. H. Res. 368--
Congratulating the University of Iowa Hawkeyes wrestling team on 
winning the 2009 NCAA Division I National Wrestling Championships (Rep. 
Loebsack--Education and Labor).
  2. On rollcall No. 815, I would have voted aye. H. Res. 562--
Congratulating Syracuse University for winning the National Collegiate 
Athletic Association Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament (Rep. 
Maffei--Education and Labor).

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