XVI HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



XIII. Science in the White House — Continued p aRe 



Timing the legislative initiative 622 



The deliberate strategy 623 



Interest of Ford as Vice President 624 



Teague and President Ford 626 



Yeager's approach 626 



Bad news and good news 627 



Rockefeller makes his report 628 



The first Teague-Mosher bill 629 



Nudging the White House toward action .... 630 



A dramatic spectacular 631 



Internal debate in the White House 633 



The prospects for legislation in 1975 634 



Dr. Stever leads off 635 



Drafting a new Teague-Mosher bill 636 



The July 30 revised bill 636 



Negotiations with the White House 637 



McCormack and Brown reservations 638 



Full committee markup meeting 639 



The House ratifies committee decisions 641 



Negotiating with three Senate committees .... 642 



The bill passes the Senate 643 



President Ford prods Congress 644 



The conference meets on April 1 645 



Teague calls on Noah Webster 645 



Subsidies to States 646 



House adopts conference report 648 



President signs the bill on May 11 648 



Political brawl over appointment of Dr. Stever 649 



President Carter and the 1976 act 651 



President Carter's reorganization plan 651 



Differences over interpretation of the 1976 act . . 653 



XIV. Task Force and Subcommittee on Energy, 1971-74 . 655 

 Representative Richard H. Fulton sponsors energy 



committee 656 



The task force on energy 657 



A proposal to Chairman Miller 657 



How the task force would operate 659 



Enlisting Teague's help 659 



Teague urges action 660 



Miller consents to the decision 661 



Charter for the task force 662 



Membership of the task force 662 



