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This question of energy, conservation of energy, pollution from energy, cuts 

 across large numbers of departments and agencies and a large number of com- 

 mittees in the Congress here, as well. 



We aren't equipped to deal with these things within the framework that has 

 now emerged. These are new frameworks that have emerged here that were 

 unknown at the time that both the Congress and the executive were organizing 

 themselves. 



We have established, the President established, the Environmental Protection 

 Agency and the Council on Environment, Judge Train's organization, in an 

 attempt to bring these together. 



What I am saying is by no means criticism of them or what has been done, 

 but it seems to me we need both the Congress and the executive to have some new 

 approaches on how we organize ourselves to deal with these things more 

 effectively.^ 



Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of 

 Foreign Policy 



An initiative of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, ac- 

 cepted with qualifications by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, 

 was the creation of a commission to focus and coordinate decision- 

 making relating to the use of U.S. resources by foreign affairs agencies. 

 The Commission was established pursuant to the Foreign Relations 

 Authorization Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-352, approved July 13, 

 1972). The purpose of the Commission is stated in section 601 of 

 title VI to be to ", . . submit findings and recommendations to 

 provide a more effective system for the formulation and execution of 

 the Nation's foreign policy," 



The original reporting date for the Commission yvas to be July 30, 

 1974; this date was subsequently extended to June 30, 1975, by the 

 Department of State Authorization Act of 1973. One feature of the 

 Commission's staff activity is a collection of studies of the scientific 

 and technological aspects of foreign policy. In view of the recent 

 addition of Vice President Rockefeller to the membership of the 

 Commission,^^^ it is expected that some of the previous studies of the 

 Vice President's own Commission on Critical Choices for the United 

 States may be made available to the new Commission. Accordingly, 

 the report scheduled for the close of the fiscal year 1975 should have 

 bearing on the subject matter of this study, even though its scope is 

 much broader. 



Growth of 'International Technological Concerns of Congress 



Specific subjects of congressional committee investigation and 

 analysis in international affairs are tending increasingly to involve 

 scientific and technological aspects. Illustrations for this discussion 

 are drawn from the agendas of the Committees on Foreign Affairs 

 and on Science and Astronautics during the 92d and 93d Congresses. 

 The former committee approached scientific and technological matters 

 in relation to its concerns with U.S. diplomacy; the latter committee 

 approached diplomatic matters in relation to its concerns with U.S. 

 science and technology. / 



M' Hearing-Symposium, House Foreign Affairs Committee, National Security Policy, pp. 390-391. 



M' The chairman of the Commission is Robert D. Murphy, formerly Ambassador, and currently honorary 

 chairman of Corning Glass Company. Other members of the Commission are, in addition to Vice President 

 Rockefeller: Senator Mike Mansfield; Senator James B. Pearson; Representative Clement J. Zablocki; 

 Representative William Broomfield; Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, chairman of Engelhard Industries; 

 Frank C. P. McGlinn, executive vice president, Fidelity Bank, Philadelphia; Dr. Stanley P. Wagner, presi- 

 dent, Grand Valley State College, Allendale, Michigan; William J. Casey, president and chairpian of the 

 Export-Import Bank; and Dr. David Abshire, chairman, Center of Strategic and International Studies, 

 Georgetown University. 



