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Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick: personal business requires me to be in the district, and I am therefore unable to be present for legislative business…

On the recordJuly 10, 2006
personal business requires me to be in the district, and I am therefore unable to be present for legislative business scheduled for today, Monday, July 10, 2006. Had I been present I would have voted ``yea'' on H.R. 2563, a bill to authorize Idaho Water Studies, (Rollcall No. 358); and ``yea'' on H.R. 5061, the Paint Bank and Wytheville National Fish Hatcheries Conveyance Act, (Rollcall No. 359). ____________________

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