[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16432]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Madam Speaker, earlier today while the 
House was voting, I was presiding at a meeting with the Secretary of 
Commerce, Mr. Locke, and several people from the fishing industry, as 
well as some of our colleagues from the Senate and later from the 
House. It was a very important meeting affecting the future of our 
fisheries, and it was impossible to get another time when we could all 
get together with Secretary Locke, and there were people from the 
fishing industry and the mayor of New Bedford who had come up.
  For that reason I missed five votes. I missed the votes on H.R. 5307, 
5756, 3199, 1745, and 5710. I would have voted ``yes'' on all of them, 
and fortunately, I wasn't needed because they all passed handily 
without me.
  But I did want to explain that I missed those votes because of my 
need to be at this very important fisheries meeting.

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