[House Report 106-496] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] 106th Congress Report HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 106-496 ====================================================================== PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 2086, NETWORKING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACT _______ February 8, 2000.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed _______ 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.