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HISTORY OF TM1 COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Energv Technologies and Energy Conservation Research, Develop- 

 ment and Demonstration," with the following membership: 

 Democrats Republicans 



Mike McCormack, Washington, Barry M. Goldwatcr, Jr., California 



Chairman Robert K. Dot nan, California 



Richard L. Ottinger, New York Larry Winn, Jr., Kansas 



Tom Harkin, Iowa Gary A. Myers, Pennsylvania 



Jerome A. Ambro, New York Hamilton Fish, Jr., New York 



Robert (Bob) Krueger, Texas Carl D. Pursell, Michigan 



James J. Blanchard, Michigan Eldon Rudd, Arizona 



Stephen L. Neal, North Carolina Robert S. Walker, Pennsylvania 



Ronnie G. Flippo, Alabama 

 Dan Glickman, Kansas 

 Anthony C. Beilenson, California 

 Albert Gore, Jr., Tennessee 

 Walter Flowers, Alabama 

 George E. Brown, Jr., California 

 Marilyn Lloyd, Tennessee 

 Timothy E. Wirth, Colorado 

 Wes Watkins, Oklahoma 

 Ray Thornton, Arkansas 

 Robert A. Young, Missouri 



While the name got longer, the jurisdictional description in 1977 

 was shortened in the rules to cover: 



All legislative and oversight matters related to research, development, and dem- 

 onstration related to energy conservation technologies and of energy technologies 

 utilizing solar and geothermal resources, and including space nuclear applications, 

 basic energy sciences, and high energy physics. 



Each year that ERDA and DOE sent up their budget request, the 

 McCormack subcommittee recommended major increases in solar, geo- 

 thermal, and conservation areas, as well as in the helds of environment 

 and safety. Usually what happened on the House floor was that the 

 House voted increases which even exceeded what the committee had 

 approved. In general, the cast of characters each year was similar: 

 Ottinger was the most insistently optimistic, always supporting in- 

 vestments far in excess of those favored by the administration, be it 

 Republican or Democratic; McCormack, the author of the original 

 1974 solar R. &.D., solar heating and cooling, and geothermal R. & D. 

 acts, always favored increases, but invariably clashed with Ottinger 

 on the latter's higher figures; and Goldwater, while a vocal supporter 

 of all renewable resources, acted as the guardian of fiscal responsibility 

 and usually wound up somewhat below McCormack 's figure but above 

 the administration figure. These generalizations, of course, over- 

 simplify the frequent substantive arguments which enlivened every 

 subcommittee meeting and floor debate. Ottinger always endorsed the 



