[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 60 (Wednesday, April 16, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E628-E629]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

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                            HON. GREG WALDEN

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, April 16, 2008

  Mr. WALDEN of Oregon. Madam Speaker, on April 10, 2008, I was not 
present to cast a recorded vote on Rollcall No. 182, an amendment 
offered by Representative Jeff Flake to

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H.R. 2537, the Beach Protection Act. As you know, in advance of debate 
on the Flake Amendment, House leadership announced that further 
consideration of H.R. 2537 would be postponed until the week of April 
14th, 2008. Had I been present to vote on the Flake Amendment, I would 
have voted ``aye.''
  I was scheduled to be in Medford, Oregon, for a series of events that 
began at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 11, 2008, including two economic 
stimulus tax clinics with senior citizens and a presentation at Jewett 
Elementary School. This schedule of events required that I travel from 
Washington, DC, to Medford on the evening of April 10, 2008, prior to 
the time that the House voted on the Flake Amendment.

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