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Representative Larry Winn, Jr. I Republican of Kansas) asked 

 Representative Abzug whether she knew that the Shuttle would add 

 $914 million to the gross state product of New York State and produce 

 12,594 new jobs for aerospace workers in New York. Mrs. Abzug 

 answered that she was aware that this would add temporary jobs, 

 but she favored a full employment program: 



I believe we -diould utilize c he energies and strength and the crcativit) ol our 



own people and our own science to create new ways to improve the quality of lite 

 here on earth 



Winn pointed out that it was impossible "to take the money 

 that we would spend on the Space Shuttle and put it into the expendi- 

 tures for the social ills * * *. We don't have an appropriation program 

 of 'put and take'. Each must stand on its own priorities". 



Wydler commented on the plight of the aerospace workers on 

 Long Island: 



rhousands ol these people are out ol work, thousands of their children are 

 suffering, the) are suffering, their wives are suffering. They need some relief, some 

 help from us in the Government. It would seem to me we would be helping those 

 •people it we were to pass this program. For that reason alone, it would seem a very 

 people-oriented program. This money doesn't go overseas as foreign aid. It goes into 

 our own country, to our own people, working and struggling to keep our Nation 

 first in space and ahead in technology. 



Fuqua called attention to the mobile cancer detection units in 

 operation in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area in New York City, adding: 



I think we are getting many things from our space program that are being applied 

 to solve many of the human needs we have. I cannot think of a better program than 

 .1 cancer detection unit in such areas as Bedford-Stuyvesant. 



Mrs. Abzug countered: 



We are not in disagreement on that. It is that I am inclined to favor the use of 

 lightweight, unmanned instrumented systems which I understand can produce the 

 same results as our manned programs, at a fraction of the cost. 



Fuqua responded: 



The cost would be reduced in half, even in the unmanned area, by having a 

 Shuttle in order to place it in proper orbit, and the fact that they can return vehicles. 



Chairman Miller entered the hearing room, and he and Rep- 

 resentative Richard T. Hanna Democrat of California) tried in vain 

 to get Representative Abzug to admit that the Shuttle was really 

 beneficial Other committee members gave Mrs. Abzug a hazing for 

 daring to oppose and presuming to know more than they did about 

 the worth of the Shuttle. It almost seemed at times that they were 

 attempting to accomplish a rite ol exorcism for the heretical beliefs 



