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"somewhat unhappy and full of doubt" about the manned space flight 

 increases. He explained his position this way: 



I certainly respect the subcommittee's judgment that this mone) could be well 

 used. I think my doubts hinge around the matters of political expediency more than 

 anything else. I just have to raise the question with the mood of Congress and the 

 mood of the people the way it is today, is it good for the space program ro offer such 

 substantial increases over and above the budget on the floor of the House? Don't we 

 just invite resistance, invite the House to cut back even further than they mitjht 

 if we didn't so dramatically draw their attention to these increases? 



With these various doubts in mind, I think I am going to have to reserve judg- 

 ment and probably vote "present" so far as this committee report is concerned 



Teague responded to Mosher by pointing out that when the space- 

 program was being slashed a billion dollars a year, $4 billion was 

 being voted for welfare. Bell mused that "one of the very reasons we 

 made the increase was the fear they would be cut back and sometimes 

 it is better to ask for a little more than we expect to get." 



Wydler then expressed a common sentiment on both sides of the 

 aisle when he observed: 



I have been going along with these cuts year to year. I really feel we have reached 

 the point w-here we should stand up and say "enough." I think we have allowed the 

 space program to be treated as a form of foreign aid in the public's mind, that we are 

 just spending money, and getting us nothing. I think we better start redirecting the 

 public's attention to the fact they are spent to hire American people, to do American 

 productive work and to try to save that money a little bit that we are talking about 

 particularly, and say that we are going to then have some kind of associate program 

 to take care of some of these people that are thrown out of this work. 



Karth then announced his opposition to the $35 million increase 

 for the Space Shuttle: 



I personally have said I guess maybe on fifty occasions that I support the orderly, 

 well-defined and well-engineered Shuttle program, but I do think that a $35 million 

 increase at this point when we do not yet have the Phase B studies completed, and 

 when we are embarking upon a major nine or ten billion dollar program * " is 

 probably the kind of an increase that will attract attention. 



Karth termed the 35 percent increase desired by the Manned 

 Space Flight Subcommittee "a little exorbitant." Chairman Miller 

 and Teague both stood firm in their insistence on a $35 million in- 

 crease. Teague was the first to give the glimmer of a possible com- 

 promise, when he said: "As far as I am personally concerned, $35 

 million is no magic figure at all. It was a figure we came up with after 

 going back to NASA." 



Karth then indicated he would offer an amendment to limit the 

 increase to $20 million. In his last markup session prior to his death 



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