I announce that the Senator from California (Mrs. Boxer), the Senator from Ohio (Mr. Brown), the Senator from Iowa (Mr. Harkin), the Senator from New Jersey (Mr. Lautenberg), and the Senator from Vermont (Mr. Sanders) are necessarily absent.
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