XII HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



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XI. Inching Toward the Metric System, 1959-79 . . . 451 



Endorsement of metric system by panel — 1961 . . 452 



Committee members take sides 453 



H. R. Gross opposes metric — 1962 454 



Chairman Miller leads the fight- -1965 456 



Wydler cool toward metric 457 



Judge Smith and the little red schoolhouse . . . 458 



Senator Pell leads Senate fight — 1966 458 



Science Committee effort 459 



Wydler asks House to defer action 459 



The House finally debates metric — 1968 461 



Chairman Miller as floor leader 462 



Terms of the 1968 metric study law 463 



Committee briefed on study report 464 



Is metrication in the dictionary? 465 



Small business opposition 466 



Representative John W. Davis and the metric bill. 468 



Labor insists on tool subsidy 469 



Marking up the metric bill — 1973 470 



Labor sways the Rules Committee 471 



Labor and rightwing opposition to metric system . 472 



Labor and small business gang up 474 



Defeat in 1974 474 



The Metric Conversion Act of 1975 475 



Lloyd plugs for labor bill 477 



Symington subcommittee markup 478 



Emery fights for 10-year goal 479 



Labor pressures renewed 481 



Smooth sailing for the metric bill 482 



Symington summarizes policy decisions 483 



Goldwater and Emery deplore lack of target date . 484 



Accepting the Senate metric bill 485 



President Carter's policy statement on metric . . 486 



A rose by any other name 487 



The Highway Administration gaffe 488 



From Fahrenheit to Celsius 489 



The committee steps into the breach 490 



The pluses and minuses of 1977 491 



Metric Board finally gets underway — 1978 .... 492 



GAO report raises doubts 494 



Teague spells out intent of Congress 494 



Support for metric system in 1979 495 



Opposition in 1979 496 



