[House Report 108-90]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



108th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 1st Session                                                     108-90

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 PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 766, NANOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND 
                        DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 2003

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 May 6, 2003.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed

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

                              R E P O R T

                       [To accompany H. Res. 219]

    The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration 
House Resolution 219, 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. 766, the 
Nanotechnology Research and Development Act of 2003, under an 
open rule. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member of the Committee on Science.
    The rule waives all points of order against consideration 
of the bill. The rule provides that the bill shall be 
considered for amendment under the five-minute rule. The rule 
provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Science now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of 
amendment. The rule provides that the bill shall be considered 
for amendment by section, and that each section shall be 
considered as read.
    The rule authorizes the Chairman of the Committee of the 
Whole to accord priority in recognition to Members who have 
preprinted 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 against consideration of 
the bill in the rule includes a waiver of clause 4(a) of rule 
XIII (requiring a three-day layover of the committee report), 
which is necessary because the committee report (H. Rept. 108-
89) was not filed until Tuesday, May 6, 2003, and the bill may 
be considered by the House as early as Wednesday, May 7, 2003.

                                
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