[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 2276]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                          HON. TAMMY DUCKWORTH

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 25, 2016

  Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. Speaker, on February 23, 2016, on Roll Call No. 83 
on the Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass H.R. 4408, to require the 
development of a national strategy to combat terrorist travel, and for 
other purposes, as amended, I am not recorded because I was absent for 
medical reasons. Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on this 
bill to require the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, within 180 
days of enactment, to transmit a national strategy to Congress to 
combat terrorist travel.
  On February 23, 2016, on Roll Call No. 84 on the Motion to Suspend 
the Rules and Pass H.R. 4402, Foreign Fighter Review Act of 2016, as 
amended, I am not recorded because I was absent for medical reasons. 
Had I been present, I would have voted YEA on this bill to require the 
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, within 120 days of enactment, to 
provide a report to Congress on instances or attempted instances since 
2011 of foreign fighter travel from the United States to Iraq or Syria.

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