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third of the staff, and one-third of the committee funds. Teague 



thundered : 



M: i hairman, I think that provision is wrong. I say that it docs the committee 

 a great disservice. There has never been any politics in this committee, and there never 

 been in the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. To make this provision mandatory 

 is wrong. 



Boiling and others hastened to add that the Boiling recommendations 

 did not mandate for the minority to have its own staff if it did not 

 want to do so. Boiling said: 



There is no compulsion on the minority to demand a staff. Obviously that is 

 the situation that prevails in the gentleman's committee. 



While this colloquy was taking place, it was apparent that some of the 

 Republican members of the Science Committee did not fully catch the 

 meaning of Boiling's last phrase, or certainly they would have arisen 

 to object. As introduced on September 30, the Hansen committee resolu- 

 tion authorized each subcommittee chairman and each ranking minor- 

 ity member (up to six) to hire and compensate one staff person — 

 rather than the authority under the Boiling provisions for the minority 

 to have a total of one-third in case they asked for it. 



During the general debate, Representative Paul S. Sarbanes 

 (Democrat of Maryland), who along with Representative William A. 

 Steiger (Republican of Wisconsin), headed up the drafting team for 

 the Boiling committee, stated: 



Research and development has been brought together in the Science and Technology 

 Committee in recognition of the importance of that area for the future of this coun- 

 try. I am very frank to say that I believe many greatly underestimate the significance 

 of that jurisdiction and what a properly strengthened Science and Technology Com- 

 mittee could do in anticipating the problems that are facing the Nation down the 

 road. 



SCIENCE COMMITTEE WINS FIGHT FOR AVIATION R. & D. 



The first effort to chip away at some of the additional jurisdiction 

 given the Science Committee was attempted by Representative Dan 

 H. Kuykendall (Republican of Tennessee) who offered an amendment 

 which, among other things, would keep jurisdiction of civil aviation 

 research and development in the Commerce Committee. Milford and 

 Wydler both spoke against the amendment. Wydler indicated that 

 "there is totally fractured jurisdiction at the present time," with FAA 

 R. & D. under the Commerce Committee and NASA R. & D. under the 

 Science Committee. The amendment lost, with Wydler noting: 



This has caused serious problems. As a matter of fact, there is a very serious one 

 in the jet noise retrofit program where both agencies were working on and have 

 worked on a different type of retrofit program. So I think this step being offered in 

 this amendment would be a great step back and should be rejected out of hand. 



