[extropy-chat] Smalley, Drexler and the monster in Lake Michigan

[Robert J. Bradbury]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:

> Surely this stuff must be available online somewhere. The record
> of changes made in parliament in Australia is the Hansard and
> its available online the following day.
>
> I'd imagine it would be similar with whatever the equivalent record
> is in the US. Does anyone know what it is?

At least some of it is:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/billsindex.html

I don't know if everything is documented.

This is an interesting URL:

http://frwebgate4.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate.cgi?WAISdocID=9263039933+3+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve

If it documents all of the activity on the bill then it would probably not
explain where the study got lost.

My guess might be S11478 on Sept. 15th.

But in the early versions of the bill (S. 189 (es)) it was in Section 5b
and it isn't in S 189 (is or rs) (where Section 5 became Section 4).
You can search on "Self-Assembly".

This would make a great detective story...

As I believe Hal pointed out there was a House bill floating around
(H.R. 766) from Feb. 13 to May 6th which does have a section in
section 8b which calls for a study of "Molecular Manufacturing".
That text is in the version that was "reported to the house" (rh).

So someplace, perhaps when the bills were brought together, the
studies didn't get resolved with each other.

Robert