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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I would like to submit this 
statement for the Record and regret that I was unavoidably detained on 
Monday, December 8, 2003, during rollcall vote Nos. 672 and 673 on H. 
Res. 493, a resolution waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule 
XIII with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from 
the Committee on Rules. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' 
on rollcall vote No. 672 and ``nay'' on rollcall vote No. 673.

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