f,SS HISTORY OF THI COMMITTEE ON SCIENCI WD TECHNOLOGY 



Zarb opened his testimony before the committee as follows: 



I am particularly pleased this morning to be able to say that we generally support 

 the bill about which we are here to testify. It is .ill coo frequent that we must come 

 before a microphone and start off by saying we have some grave problems. But we do 

 generally support the bill and its intent and motivations, and certainly the project 

 that it addresses. 



THE QUICK COMPROMISE WITH UDALL 



The other side of the deal was consummated as Teague gave 

 instructions to the staff to work with Udall's staff and arrive at a 

 compromise on the Udall bill. It was agreed that no jurisdictional 

 decisions would be written into the bill, that it would be comanaged 

 on the House floor by members of both the Science and Interior Com- 

 mittees, and that members of both committees would serve in the 

 conference with the Senate. 



By August 13, Representative James A. Haley (Democrat of 

 Florida), Chairman of the House Interior Committee, was able to 

 write to Teague: 



I am pleased to learn that Mo Udall and Mike McCormack and their staffs have 

 reached an agreeable compromise on H.R. 13565, the Nonnuclear Energy Research 

 and Development Act of 1974. Mo has discussed the various elements of the agreement 

 with me, and I find it satisfactory, as I understand it is with you. * * * 



It was gratifying to me that our two committees have been able to work together 

 in this constructive manner, and I am looking forward to swift passage of this im- 

 portant legislation. 



The compromise bill presented a unique parliamentary situation. 

 The text of the compromise was printed in the Congressional Record. 

 The Committee on Rules then made in order, not a regular bill in 

 printed form, but the text as printed in the Congressional Record, a 

 precedent which was later repeated in the consideration of loan guar- 

 antees for synthetic fuels in 1976 (see chapter XVII). 



The process by which the administration came around to support- 

 ing the three subcommittee bills was characterized by Dr. Ratchford 

 as a response to "the power of negative thinking." 



As these events were taking place, the subcommittee met on 

 August 9 to mark up the omnibus solar research bill. At the conclusion 

 of the subcommittee markup session, Symington turned to Chairman 

 McCormack and said: 



I do not know whether any of us were here when the Science Committee was 

 created. They wrote better than they knew. They did hit the Moon inside of 10 years, 

 and it was a heck of a gamble with a tremendous amount of insight and hope. I just 

 want you to know that I as a member of this committee am very proud of your leader- 

 ship in setting up this kind of legislation which perhaps in ten years' time will bring 

 an even greater benefit to this country and mankind once we unleash the scientific 



