g42 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCI AND TECHNOLOGY 



while Hechler was speaking, Majority Leader O'Xcill asked him to 

 yield. The Congressional Record would indicate that O'Neill deliv- 

 ered an eloquent encomium to "'Tiger' Teague and Charlie Mosher," 

 who had met with the President and worked out the details of the 

 legislation. According to the Record, O'Neill said, "'Tiger' and 

 Charlie have grasped the meaning of an interrelated world." If the 

 truth be known, the staff made elaborate advance preparations to 

 insure that these staff-prepared remarks were given to O'Neill in 

 advance of the debate and even though they were not actually 

 spoken, they appeared as part of the debate. The committee staff 

 was very busy preparing sheafs of "suggested remarks" which sub- 

 sequently appeared verbatim in the Record, although certainly 

 neither Teague nor Mosher knew in advance what had been furnished 

 to the majoritv leader to deliver. 



But there was one completely unrehearsed and extemporaneous 

 statement which Mosher made on November 6, which required no 

 staff assistance or advance prompting: 



I want to express my personal appreciation and gratitude to Phil Yeager, of 

 our committee staff, for the very diligent, responsible, creative role he has played 

 as the one person most active in conceiving and perfecting this legislation. It is 

 typical of the extremely significant, fruitful service he has given for these many 

 years to our committee and to the Congress as a whole, and I hope he will continue 

 to give lor a long time to come. I know that Chairman Teague and other committee 

 members join me in this expression of our admiration and respect for Phil. 



By a rollcall vote of 362 to 28, the bill passed the House on 

 November 6. The big hurdle of reaching agreement with the White 

 House had temporarily been surmounted; now the issue was how to 

 reach agreement with the Senate and still retain the acceptance of 

 the White House for the legislation. The road ahead was a rocky 

 one. 



NEGOTIATING WITH THREE SENATE COMMITTEES 



The prospects for agreement with the Senate were clouded by 

 the fact that three Senate committees had their lingers in the pie: 

 Senator Kennedy's National Science Foundation Subcommittee of the 

 Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Senator Magnuson's Commerce 

 Committee; and the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee 

 headed by Senator Moss. Furthermore, S. 32 had a long tradition in 

 the Senate of including many provisions which clearly represented 

 Senate policy, but which were strange to the thinking of both the 

 House of Representatives and the White House. Also, the Senate 

 staff negotiators had been through several tough battles with the 

 House on the OTA bill, and conference reports on various issues. 

 The House Members and staff knew the Senate staffers had very 



