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Teague-Mosher bill which had called for a Cabinet Department of 

 Research and Technology Operations and the information corporation 

 were ditched. In their place was established a Federal Science and 

 Technology Survey Committee to study and report on all the unre- 

 solved questions of science policy and organization which had been 

 brought to the surface. 



As he introduced the bill, Teague told the House on July 30 that 

 he felt the committee had achieved "a reasonable compromise which 

 is both effective and possible." He termed the new bill one which 

 contained "the most promising features" of the original bill and the 

 administration bill. He especially noted that he felt it important to 

 include those features of his original bill "which both the Congress 

 and the President would be likely to find feasible and beneficial." 



Recognizing that the new bill had not yet cleared the full com- 

 mittee, Teague told the House that he hoped the committee would 

 report a new bill in September. Noting that the Senate was also ready 

 to act, Teague then made this optimistic prediction: 



We look for a bill compatible to all parties to become law before the end of 

 this year. 



NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE 



Unknown to all but his closest friends and staff, Teague had 

 suffered a mild stroke in the summer of 1975- Although he was forced 

 to curtail his activities, the staff redoubled its efforts to arrive at an 

 agreement with the administration. A negotiating group for the ad- 

 ministration included representatives of the Domestic Council, the 

 National Security Council, OMB, and Dr. Stever's office in NSF which 

 had been acting as the Science Adviser since 1973- There were many 

 tough and detailed fights over specific language and its interpretation, 

 but general agreement was reached in support of the structure of the 

 July 30 Teague-Mosher version. The administration agreed to Senate 

 confirmation for the Director, but not for the four Assistant Directors. 

 There were other changes insisted on by the administration negotiating 

 team, in the direction of giving the President more control, and au- 

 thorizing the Office of Science and Technology Policy to do less. 



Teague and Mosher gave their tentative approval to the revisions 

 in their July 30 version, and had a printed revision made incorporating 

 these changes by September 16. The committee staff then started a 

 serious effort to brief all members of the committee and the individual 

 Members' staffs on the current status of the bill. One Member sur- 

 prised the committee staff by walking in on the special briefings 

 arranged for individual Members' staffs. The staff had available a 

 huge four-column chart which contrasted, in parallel, the original 



