[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 9665]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                             HON. TOM COLE

                              of oklahoma

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, April 1, 2009

  Mr. COLE. Madam Speaker, on Tuesday, March 31, 2009, I was 
unavoidably detained and I missed the first vote in a series of three 
votes. I missed rollcall vote No. 173.
  Had I been present and voting, I would have voted as follows:
  Rollcall vote No. 173: ``no'' (On agreeing to H. Res. 279).

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