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

[Robert J. Bradbury]

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Hal Finney wrote:

> I am going by
> http://nanobot.blogspot.com/2003_11_23_nanobot_archive.html#106969756709919883,

The House bill seems to be dated May 1st.  The Senate bill (labeled 189 es) that
Howard cites is the copy that is sent to the Senate (presumably immediately after
it was submitted (S. 189 (enr)) both the (enr) and (es) versions were presumably dated
in January.  The S. 189 (is) is the version is I believe the version that came
out of committee in September and finally got voted on.  The S. 189 (rs) version
shows all of the stuff they deleted/changed in the committee.  Neither the (rs)
or the (is) versions have the study in them.  That means the study was most
likely deleted from the floor of the Senate sometime between January and
September unless the committee made a mistake in its editing of the (rs) version.

There is a possibility that a Senate-House conference committee met sometime
between January and September to resolve the differences and the study got
thrown out in that process.  I'm not sure where to find those records.

But I believe Howard and perhaps CMP Cientifica are citing older bills and
not the final version signed by President Bush.

If we want to know why politics is so complex this is sure a good example.

Robert

The pointers for the bills and definitions can be found in my post to
the thread: http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/04/0216244
under the specific post by me at: Sunday December 07, @10:59AM (#11)