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HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



This is the first formal meeting in the Rayburn Building, and I think it is only 

 fitting that Speaker McCormack, who has done so much for this building and this 

 committee, be the hist man to preside over a meeting here. 



With a cheery smile, Speaker McCormack cracked an out-sized gavel, 

 and brought laughter when he proclaimed in an exaggeratedly author- 

 itative fashion: "The committee will come to order." Speaker Mc- 

 Cormack celebrated the occasion very briefly with these words: 



It stems to me to be singularly appropriate that the Committee on Science and 

 Astronautics should be the first committee to meet in this magnificent building of 

 public service, named for the late beloved Speaker of the House, the Honorable Sam 

 Eta) burn of Texas 



Speaker McCormack also praised Majority Leader Carl Albert, noting 

 that "it was with his support that this committee was established, 

 the first standing committee without precedent to be created by the 

 House since the turn of the century." 



Chairman Miller also used the occasion of the first meeting of the 

 new Congress to introduce the new membership of the Committee on 

 Science and Astronautics, which in 1965 included the following: 



Republicans 



Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts 

 James G. Fulton, Pennsylvania 

 Charles A. Mosher, Ohio 

 Richard L. Roudebush, Indiana 

 Alphonzo Bell, California 

 Thomas M. Pelly, Washington 

 Donald Rumsfeld, Illinois 

 Edward J. Gurney, Florida 

 John W. Wydler, New York 

 Barber B. Conable, Jr., 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 



Bob Casey, Texas 



John W. Davis, Georgia 



William F. Ryan, New York 



Thomas N. Downing, Virginia 



Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Louisiana 



Don Fuqua, Florida 



Carl Albert, Oklahoma 



Roy A. Taylor, North Carolina 



George E. Brown, Jr., California 



Walter H. Moeller, Ohio 



William R. Anderson, Tennessee 



Brock Adams, Washington 



Lester L. Wolff, New York 



Weston E. Vivian, Michigan 



Gale Schisler, Illinois 



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 Science, Research and Development, Emilio Q. Daddario, Chairman. 

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



