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conducted under the aegis of the Subcommittee on Science, Research 

 and Technology. A second panel reported in 1978, and some of its 

 recommendations were incorporated in legislation which the Congress 

 passed in 1978, establishing a National Council on the Handicapped 

 and a vastly increased research program for the handicapped, placed 

 within the HEW Department. 



Despite the failure of the Dillaway oversight operation in the 94th 

 Congress, in 1979 the committee Democratic caucus voted to set up a 

 new Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. Representative 

 Jim Lloyd (Democrat of California) was elected chairman. In conjunc- 

 tion with the Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee, an 

 investigative trip to Mexico examined the potential for the transfer of 

 technology and energy resources between the United States and Mexico. 

 The Lloyd subcommittee also held hearings on the aeronautical design 

 of the DC-10, and those technical aspects which might require future 

 modifications, in light of the worst tragedy in U.S. aviation history 

 on May 25, 1979. 



On July 19-20, the committee held two successful joint hearings 

 with the Select Committee on Aging on applications of space technol- 

 ogy for the elderly and handicapped. 



Chapter XVI 



Continuing the work which he had started in 1963 as chairman of 

 the Subcommittee on Advanced Research and Technology, Hechler 

 put increasing emphasis on basic research and an expansion of R. & D. 

 work in aeronautics. With the strong support of Pelly, Wydler, and 

 Goldwater, and the interested participation of Davis and Symington, 

 Hechler's subcommittee succeeded in concentrating more of NASA's 

 attention on safety, general aviation, and airport and airways conges- 

 tion, short takeoff and landing planes, as well as the training of young 

 aeronautical engineers. For several years, Hechler pressed for the up- 

 grading of aeronautics in the NASA hierarchy, and also agitated for 

 an Associate Administrator for Aeronautics and a separate office to 

 handle General Aviation. In 1972, the name of NASA's Advanced 

 Research and Technology Office was changed to the "Office of Aero- 

 nautics and Space Technology," opening the way for the Hechler 

 subcommittee to change its name to the ' ' Subcommittee on Aeronautics 

 and Space Technology." Roy P. Jackson was then named NASA's 

 Associate Administrator for Aeronautics and Space Technology. In 

 1973, NASA, following the insistence of the Hechler subcommittee, 

 set up a separate General Aviation Technology Office. 



