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House Calendar No. 85 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 610 

[Report No. 111–192] 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) to amend the Small 

Business Act with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research 

Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 7, 2009 

Mr. POLIS of Colorado, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following 

resolution; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) to amend 

the Small Business Act with respect to the Small Business Innovation Research Program and the Small Business Technology Transfer Program, and for other purposes. 

1 Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 

2 resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of 

3 rule XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee 

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1 ation of the bill (H.R. 2965) to amend the Small Business 

2 Act with respect to the Small Business Innovation Re3 search Program and the Small Business Technology 

4 Transfer Program, and for other purposes. The first read5 ing of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of order 

6 against consideration of the bill are waived except those 

7 arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. General debate 

8 shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one hour, 

9 with 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 

10 chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on 

11 Small Business and 20 minutes equally divided and con12 trolled by the chair and ranking minority member of the 

13 Committee on Science and Technology. After general de14 bate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the 

15 five-minute rule. In lieu of the amendment recommended 

16 by the Committee on Science and Technology now printed 

17 in the bill, it shall be in order to consider as an original 

18 bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute 

19 rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute rec20 ommended by the Committee on Small Business now 

21 printed in the bill. The committee amendment in the na22 ture of a substitute shall be considered as read. All points 

23 of order against the committee amendment in the nature 

24 of a substitute are waived except those arising under 

25 clause 10 of rule XXI. Notwithstanding clause 11 of rule 


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1 XVIII, no amendment to the committee amendment in the 

2 nature of a substitute shall be in order except those print3 ed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 

4 this resolution. Each such amendment may be offered only 

5 in the order printed in the report, may be offered only 

6 by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 

7 as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 

8 report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and 

9 an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 

10 not be subject to a demand for division of the question 

11 in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The pro12 ponent of any such amendment may modify its amend13 atory instructions before the question is put thereon. All 

14 points of order against such amendments are waived ex15 cept those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. At 

16 the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment 

17 the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the House 

18 with such amendments as may have been adopted. The 

19 previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 

20 bill and amendments thereto to final passage without in21 tervening motion except one motion to recommit with or 

22 without instructions. 

23 SEC. 2. The Chair may entertain a motion that the 

24 Committee rise only if offered by the chair of the Com25 mittee on Small Business or her designee. The Chair may 


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1 not entertain a motion to strike out the enacting words 

2 of the bill (as described in clause 9 of rule XVIII). 

3 SEC. 3. During consideration of H.R. 2965, the Chair 

4 may reduce to two minutes the minimum time for elec5 tronic voting under clause 6 of rule XVIII and clauses 8 

6 and 9 of rule XX. 


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House Calendar No. 85 

111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 610 

[Report No. 111–192] 

RESOLUTION 

Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) 

fer Program, and for other purposes. gram and the Small Business Technology Transthe Small Business Innovation Research Proto amend the Small Business Act with respect to 

JULY 7, 2009 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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