Ig2 HISTORY OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



Throughout his tenure as subcommittee chairman, Teague con- 

 tinued to go out of his way to enlist Republican interest and support, 

 and the Republican members reciprocated by working vigorously 

 toward the committee objectives. In presenting the recommended 

 funding tor manned space flight in both 1964 and 1965, Teague told 

 his House colleagues: 



This bill * * * is nor a partisan bill. The space program was begun in a Republi- 

 can administration and continued in a Democratic administration. Republicans and 

 Democrats alike have supported it through the years. It is an American program, 

 designed to place our country in its rightful position before the nations of the world. 



Nevertheless, there were some issues which troubled Republicans 

 on both the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee as well as the full 

 committee. Throughout the 1960's, Republicans on the committee 

 assumed leadership in agitating for a more adequate staff to arm all 

 Members with the tools necessary to exercise meaningful oversight. 

 Coupled with this request was the recommendation that there should 

 be a staff for the minority members of the committee. The arguments 

 advanced for both of these objectives overlapped somewhat, and were 

 annually repeated in "Additional Views" printed every year in the 

 back of the authorization reports. In the early years, there were many 

 Democrats who both openly and behind the scenes advocated an in- 

 crease in the size of the staff. As it became apparent that Chairman 

 Miller strongly opposed staff expansion, most of the Democrats quietly 

 abandoned the issue and left it to the Republicans annually to beat 

 their chests in futile an^er. 



Chairman Miller favored the Daddario Subcommittee on Science, 

 Research and Development not only with high quality permanent 

 staff, but encouraged the use of contracts and outside scientific assist- 

 ance which did the job needed for the Members. In the case of the 

 Manned Space Flight Subcommittee, Chairman Teague made up for 

 a great deal of the staff shortage through his very active, personalized 

 custom of subcommittee visits to contractors, NASA installations and 

 monthly conferences at the Office of Manned Space Flight in NASA 

 Headquarters. 



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As has been noted, Fulton annually brought out in committee 

 executive sessions, in "Additional Views" in committee reports, and 

 during House debates on the authorization bill his opinion that there 

 should be more committee staff, there s tould be a clearly defined 

 minority staff, and that legislation should establish an "Inspector 

 General" for NASA. Fulton proved to be a man ahead of his times; 

 the committee staff eventually grew in the 1970's, a minority staff 

 was authorized, and a 1978 statute provided for an "Inspector General" 

 for NASA and other Federal agencies. Although former Speaker Martin 



