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members had drifted off to perform constituent chores, Scheuer was 

 earnestly squeezing the last possible drop of information out of wit- 

 nesses, wav past the usual hour for lunch. 



A graduate of Swarthmore College, Scheuer had a law degree from 

 Columbia, as well as a degree in industrial administration from the 

 Harvard Business School. He was an active and highly successful de- 

 veloper of residential communities under the Federal urban renewal 

 program and was first elected to Congress in 1964. He joined the com- 

 mittee in 1975- In 1977, the DISPAC Subcommittee included the 

 following members: 



Democrats Republicans 



James H. Scheuer, New York, Chairman Carl D. Pursell, Michigan 

 James J. Blanchard, Michigan Robert S. Walker, Pennsylvania 



Stephen L. Neal, North Carolina Edwin B. Forsythe, New Jersey 



Anthony C. Beilenson, California 

 Dan Glickman, Kansas 

 Albert Gore, Jr., Tennessee 

 Dale Milford, Texas 



The Committee Rules for the 95th Congress gave DISPAC the 

 following jurisdiction: 



Special oversight and evaluation of single agency, nonmilitary research and de- 

 velopment programs for those agencies not included in the jurisdiction of other sub- 

 committees; legislation, oversight, and other matters relating to intergovernmental 

 mechanisms for research, development, and technology transfer; international tech- 

 nology transfer and technology, including bilateral agreements and relationships to 

 foreign policy; and interagency and international coordination of population- 

 related research and development, including food, crime control, health, housing, and 

 resources, not within the jurisdiction of other subcommittees. 



Even before the formal organization meeting of the subcommittee, 

 Scheuer had an expansive letter off to Chairman Teague on January 27, 

 1977, outlining both the domestic and international areas of interest 

 of some of the subcommittee members with whom Scheuer had talked. 

 In his hrst rough cut at the work ahead, Scheuer stressed "the ex- 

 tremely broad scope of jurisdiction of the subcommittee, and the 

 strong interest the subcommittee members have expressed in develop- 

 ing an active program for the subcommittee." 



The staff director of the Scheuer subcommittee was Dr. William G. 

 Wells, Jr. (see page 255), who operated in a pressure-cooker atmos- 

 phere to stay abreast of the multifarious subject areas which the sub- 

 committee tackled in 1977-78. 



At the organization meeting on February 24, Scheuer commented: 



Our top staffer, and we are lucky to have him, is Bill Wells. I have worked with 

 Bill Wells in Jimmy Symington's committee and he is terrific. * * * We have such 



