[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8368]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. GENE GREEN

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 26, 2011

  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to explain my 
absence from votes cast on the evening of May 25, 2011. My voting 
percentage is 97.5 percent for the 112th Congress, and I rarely miss 
votes, but due to a prior commitment scheduled before we knew the House 
would be in session late tonight, I was required to fly back to Houston 
and miss the vote to concur with Senate amendments to the PATRIOT Act.
  On the vote I missed:
  To approve and concur with the Senate amendments on the PATRIOT Act, 
had I been present, I would have voted ``no.''
  And on final passage of the PATRIOT Act, had I been present, I would 
have voted ``no.''

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