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Instead, upon being presented with the alternatives developed by 

 Bill Wells, DISPAC staff director, Chairman Teague offered a warm 

 and friendly olive branch to Chairman Clement J. Zablocki (Demo- 

 crat of Wisconsin) of the International Relations Committee in a 

 letter dated April 6, 1978: 



You are to be congratulated for proposing forceful action in areas long neglected 

 by a succession of Administrations. Your objectives are crucial to the long-term in- 

 terests of the United States and your proposals deserve extensive consideration by the 

 Congress. 



In addition to offering our support, I would like to suggest that an informal 

 working relationship between our respective committees might be useful to you in 

 bringing your proposals before the House. In no way am I proposing sequential re- 

 ferral of legislation; such experience and expertise as have been developed over a 

 number of years in working on the international scientific and technological programs 

 of agencies under our jurisdiction would be on call to you as desired. 



Chairman Teague's offer was immediately and warmly accepted by 

 Chairman Zablocki. At the direction of both Teague and Scheuer, 

 the staffs of the Science Committee and the International Relations 

 Committee worked closely together, at first on a separate bill intro- 

 duced by Zablocki, and then later when the Zablocki bill was in- 

 corporated as title V of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act 

 which passed in 1978. 



In 1979, the Secretary of State reported to the Congress on title V, 

 and concluded that the impact of its provisions would be felt most 

 strongly in three areas: 



— long-term planning related to the interaction of science, tech- 

 nology and foreign policy; 

 — procedures for interagency coordination of international scientific 



and technological activities; and 

 — procedures for recruiting, training, and motivating personnel to 

 carry out title V's objectives. 



In a well-planned and coordinated effort, the committee jumped 

 in and helped the House Foreign Affairs Committee beat down an 

 attempt by the House Appropriations Committee in 1979 to slash the 

 funding for the State Department's Bureau of Oceans and International 

 and Scientific Affairs. The cut was a deep one — over 50 percent. On 

 July 12, 1979, Fuqua, McCormack, and Lloyd teamed up to speak out 

 for full restoration of the $3 million cut. Fuqua told the House: 



In every area that the Committee on Science and Technology has worked we 

 find, more and more, that science and technology has become a significant influence 

 on the international scene. * * * When we have agencies that do not perform as we 

 think that they should — and this agency is not totally innocent of that — I think we 

 should strive— and it is our responsibility to improve that performance rather than 

 trying to cripple the agency by drastic cuts in budgets. 



