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Joint Committee on Research Policy. According to the Committee's 

 report: 



A joint committee should be organized as a counterpart to 

 the Office of Science and Technology, the Federal Council 

 on Science and Technology, and the President's Science 

 Advisory Committee complex in the executive branch. In 

 this sense, it would be comparable to the Joint Economic 

 Committee which is the legislation counterpart to the 

 Council of Economic Advisers within the executive. 31 



The intent of the proposed Joint Committee was not to replace the 

 existing committees with jurisdiction over research and develop- 

 ment, but to provide an overall view and coordinating capacity. 

 However compelling this argument appeared to its proponents, it 

 faced insurmountable opposition within the turf-conscious House of 

 Representatives. 



DADDARIO SUBCOMMITTEE 



Even the creation of Elliott's temporary Select Committee on 

 Government Research exercised several Congressmen who viewed 

 their committee's jurisdiction threatened. The Armed Services 

 Committee and the Committee on Science and Astronautics went 

 so far as to create their own subcommittees on research. 32 Science 

 and Astronautics Committee Chairman George P. Miller, Democrat 

 of California, established the Subcommittee on Science, Research 

 and Development on 23 August 1963 with Representative Emilio Q. 

 Daddario, Democrat of Connecticut, as chairman. When the Elliott 

 resolution to establish the Select Committee came up for roll call 

 vote on 11 September, Miller remarked: 



Investigation into research and development has to 

 begin someplace, and perhaps this is as good a place as 

 any ... I am certain the Committee on Science and Astro- 

 nautics will cooperate with the new committee, but it will 

 protect its own interests and will fight against any dupli- 

 cation of effort in those areas in which the House of Rep- 

 resentatives has given it statutory jurisdiction. 33 



The Daddario subcommittee — charged with the overall evaluation 

 of the nation's research and development efforts, improving the use 

 of scientific and engineering resources to meet national goals, de- 

 veloping scientific advisory mechanisms within Congress, and over- 

 seeing the National Science Foundation — quickly began its own 

 special study into essentially the very same issues explored by the 

 Elliott Committee. Hearings were held in October and November 

 1963, and were followed by the publication of a series of five re- 

 ports. 34 The Daddario subcommittee continued its probing of the 



31 Select Committee on Government Research, National Goals and Policies, p. 55. 



32 See Ken Hechler, Toward the Endless Frontier: History of the Committee on Science and 

 Technology, 1959-79 (Washington: GPO, 1980), pp. 130-132; and D. S. Greenberg, "Elliott Com- 

 mittee: Final Reports Issued as 15-Month Investigation of Federal Research Comes to End," Sci- 

 ence, 147 (January 8, 1965), 131-132. 



33 Quoted in Hechler, Toward the Endless Frontier, p. 131. 



34 See U.S. Congress, House Committee on Science and Astronautics, Subcommittee on Sci- 

 ence, Research and Development, Government and Science, 5 volumes: No. 1, A Statement of 



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