[House Report 106-496]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     106-496

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     PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2086, NETWORKING AND 
          INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT

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  February 8, 2000.--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. 422]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 422, by a nonrecord vote, report the same to 
the House with the recommendation that the resolution be 
adopted.

                summary of provisions of the resolution

    The resolution provides for the consideration of H.R. 2086, 
the Networking and Information Technology Research Development 
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 Science.
    The rule further provides that it shall be in order to 
consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on Science now printed in the bill, modified by 
striking section 8 (Research Credit Made Permanent). The 
amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be open for 
amendment by section.
    The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to accord priority in recognition to Members who have pre-
printed their amendments in the Congressional Record and 
provides that those amendments shall be considered as read. The 
rule also 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. Finally, the rule provides one 
motion to recommit with or without instructions.

                                  
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