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I think that I would be a poor committee chairman if I did not tell you that I feel 

 m) committee was short-changed by your appointments to the Ad Hoi. Committee 

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1 doubt that you realize or dream how much work our committee has done and 

 will do in the field of Energy. I guess that 1 was naive to think my recommendations 



wouid have any weight. 



1 was more than disappointed that Walter Flowers was not appointed to this 

 committee. Walter Flowers is chairman of one of my energy subcommittees. He has 

 shown much interest; he has done a great job and I am sure will continue to do so. 



Personalities, the presence of two highly visible energy sub- 

 committees, and shifting administrative arrangements for energy in the 

 executive branch all contributed to clashes between the two sub- 

 committee chairmen handling energy. Flowers understated the strong 

 competition between McCormack and himself when he observed: 



We're friends. We've had minor trench warfare from time to time — nothing 

 serious. 



Ketcham and Andelin, the two subcommittee directors, entered into 

 the competitive spirit in what Flowers termed "a little sideline 

 action" while the main game was progressing close by. As a result, by 

 early 1978 the relations between the two energy subcommittees had 

 deteriorated as they struggled for jurisdictional supremacy over various 

 segments of the DOE authorization. Controversies boiled up as to 

 whether certain developments in heat engines, combustion systems, 

 nuclear physics and nuclear science, and advanced technology and 

 assessment projects more properly belonged as conservation and basic 

 research with the McCormack subcommittee or whether they had 

 completely fossil and nuclear implications which justified their assign- 

 ment to the Flowers subcommittee. 



Teague tried in vain to persuade McCormack, Flowers, and their 

 staff directors to come up with a formula which would result in a work- 

 able compromise. Instead, the battling became worse. Finally, Teague 

 called on Dr. Jack Dugan and asked him to sort out the competing 

 claims and suggest a compromise. At extended sessions in Teague's 

 olfice, attended by Committee Staff Director Mosher, Deputy Director 

 Gould, and Dugan, an equitable division was worked out in each of the 

 areas of dispute. A sample of the delicacy of the compromise is con- 

 tained in the following paragraph, which covers only one phase of the 

 jurisdictional settlement: 



Improved conversion efficiency. — Work on heat engines and high temperature (greater 

 than 200° F) heat recovery is closely tied to combustion and related materials tech- 

 nology. On this basis the heat engine and high and medium grade heat recovery 

 (from conservation) and combustion systems should be assigned to the Flowers sub- 

 committee. The low grade heat recovery activity is a new advanced technology con- 

 servation R. & D. program and should be assigned to the McCormack subcommittee. 





