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At the start of 1963, the following constituted the membership of 

 the full committee: 



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Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts 

 James G. Fulton, Pennsylvania 

 J. Edgar Chenoweth, Colorado 

 William K. Van Pelt, Wisconsin 

 R. Walter Riehlman, New York 

 Charles A. Mosher, Ohio 

 Richard L. Roudebush, Indiana 

 Alphonzo Bell, California 

 Thomas M. Pelly, Washington 

 Donald Rumsfeld, Illinois 

 James D. Weaver, Pennsylvania 

 Edward J. Gurney, Florida 

 John W. Wydler.New York 



Democrats 



George P. Miller, California, Chairman 



Olin E. Teague, Texas 



Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota 



Ken Hechler, West Virginia 



Emilio Q. Daddario, Connecticut 



J. Edward Roush, Indiana 



Thomas G. Morris, New Mexico 



Bob Casey, Texas 



William J. Randall, Missouri 



John W. Davis, Georgia 



William F. Ryan, New York 



Thomas N. Downing, Virginia 



Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Louisiana 



Edward J. Patten, New Jersey 



Richard H. Fulton, Tennessee 



Don Fuqua, Florida 



Neil Staebler, Michigan 



Carl Albert, Oklahoma 



Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight, Olin E. Teague, Chairman. 

 Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications, Joseph E. Karth, Chairman. 

 Subcommittee on Advanced Research and Technology, Ken Hechler, Chairman. 

 Subcommittee on NASA Oversight, Olin E. Teague, Chairman. 



At the organizational meeting of the committee on February 5, 

 1963, after the customary introduction of the newly elected members, 

 Chairman Miller stressed one of his favorite themes : 



We must expand our operations to give more attention to the National Science 

 Foundation, the National Bureau of Standards, and to other facets of science which 

 are our responsibility, than we have in the past. 



In practice, the committee tried to do this in between the most 

 time-consuming job of all — exercising oversight over NASA and hold- 

 ing careful and lengthy authorization hearings every spring. 



In 1959, the committee sponsored a resolution empowering the 

 National Science Foundation to produce a status report on scientific 

 manpower and education. Subsequently, the committee actively en- 

 gaged in efforts to expand the training of more scientists and en- 

 gineers. The committee also conducted many hearings and issued 

 useful reports in related scientific areas such as weather modification, 

 progress toward the metric system in the United States, dissemination 

 of scientific information, and agency reviews of the National Science 

 Foundation and the National Bureau of Standards. 



As noted in chapter II, the Panel on Science and Technology, 

 meeting on the average twice a year, began to assume greater signifi- 



