[House Report 107-535]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



107th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     107-535

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PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 4598, HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION 
                              SHARING ACT

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   June 25, 2002.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 
                                printed

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     Mr. Goss, from the Committee on Rules, submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 458]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 458, 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 consideration of H.R. 4598, the 
Homeland Security Information Sharing Act, under an open rule. 
The rule provides one hour of general debate, with 40 minutes 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by 
the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
the Judiciary.
    The rule waives all points of order against consideration 
of the bill. The rule 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 the Judiciary now printed in the bill. The rule 
waives all points of order against the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute. The rule provides that the bill 
shall be open for amendment by section.
    The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to accord priority in recognition to those Members who have 
pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions.
    The waiver of all points of order includes a waiver of 
clause 4(a) of rule XIII (requiring a three-day layover of the 
committee report), which is needed because H. Rept. 107-534 
Part 1, was not filed by the Judiciary Committee until Tuesday, 
June 25, and the bill may be considered by the House as early 
as Wednesday, June 26.

                                  
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