AERONAUTICS AND TRANSPORTATION 



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successful experiments being earned out on hydrogen fuel injection for 

 automobiles, resulting in higher efficiency operation 



The tremendous success of the NASA investment in aeronautics 

 spurred a comparable interest in applying NASA expertise toward 

 developing fuel-efficient automobiles and other forms ol ground trans- 

 portation. It is unfortunate that this noble effort did not proceed up the 

 arduous legislative trail to the summit of enactment in 1974. The 

 Brown-Svmington-McCormack bill attracted a lot of public attention 

 and mustered widespread congressional support, but did not go beyond 

 the subcommittee stage (see also page 799 and chapter XIX). 



A NEW SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRM \X 



At the start of 1975, Hechler's decision to take over the Fossil 

 Energy Subcommittee opened the way for a new chairman to handle 

 a vastly strengthened subcommittee which was renamed at the start 

 of the 94th Congress as "Aviation and Transportation Research and 

 Development." Representative Dale Milford of Texas, lOth-ranked 

 member of the Science Committee took over the new subcommittee. 

 Only 10 members bid for membership on the Milford subcommittee, 

 as follows: 



Democrats Republicans 



Dale Milford, Texas. Chairman John W. Wydler, New York 



Robert A. Roe, New Jerscv Barry M. Goldwater, Jr., California 



James H. Scheuer, New York John B. Conlan, Arizona 



Tom Harkin, Iowa 

 Jim LloyJ, California 

 Tim L. Hall, Illinois 

 Richard L. Occinger, Mew York 



The broadened jurisdiction of the new subcommittee was defined 

 as follows in 19" 5: 



Legislation and other matters relating to civil aviation research and development 

 (includes NASA and Federal Aviation Administration aviation research and develop- 

 ment programs), surface transportation research and development oversight (in- 

 cludes the Department of Transportation, Coast Guard, Federal Highway Adminis- 

 tration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Railroad Adminis- 

 tration, Urban Mass Transportation Administration research and development 

 .tins), and that part of the annual authorization for the National Aeronautics 

 and Space Administration relating to aeronautical research and development. 



Milford, born in Bug Tussle, Tex., was first elected in 1972 out of 

 a newly created district containing a mixture of black liberal as well as 

 conservative suburbs of Dallas and Fort Worth. The district, adjoining 

 Teague's, was from the start closely marginal in Democratic primaries, 

 and Milford was defeated in the 1978 primary attempting to be nomi- 

 nated for his fourth term. It was at the beginning of his second term 

 that he vaulted into a subcommittee chairmanship 



