[House Report 106-187]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                    106-187

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      PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 659, THE PATRIOT ACT

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   June 16 (legislative day, June 15), 1999.--Referred to the House 
                   Calendar and ordered to be printed

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Mr. Hastings of Washington, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 210]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 210, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

                  summary of provisions of resolution

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 659, 
the ``PATRIOT Act,'' under an open rule. The rule provides one 
hour of general debate divided equally between the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on Resources.
    The rule makes in order as an original bill for the purpose 
of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Resources now printed in the 
bill. The rule provides that the amendment in the nature of a 
substitute be considered for amendment by title.
    The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in 
recognition to Members who have preprinted their amendments in 
the Congressional Record. The rule allows the Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration 
of the bill, and to reduce voting time to five minutes on a 
postponed question if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. 
The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions.

                                  
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