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phasizcd in his testimony here, and other committee members will also agree, an 

 ever-increasing amount of our committee time and effort is necessarily devoted to a 

 varietj oi science and tcchnolog) problems and proposals other than those involved 

 in the space program We maintain a strong allegiance to \ \S \, an I in fac i NASA's 

 needs and goals arc of increasing variety and interest; hut it is essential to consider 

 astronautics and aeronautics in the perspective of all our other R. ,\ D. activities, 

 and to coordinate them all. 



Therefore, I personally would welcome although I consider it a relatively 

 minor matter a recommendation from your Select Committee on Committees that 

 our S and A Committee might best be renamed, to indicate the true breadth of its 

 mission Perhaps we should be the Committee on Science and Technology, or on 

 Science and Engineering. (I do emphasize this is only my personal recommendation.) 



When he actually delivered his prepared remarks, Mosher said to the 

 Boiling Committee: 



I think I have emphasized why it is not correct to call it the Space Committee. 

 I think it much more accurate to call it the Science Committee. It might well be that 

 you might want to recommend — this is sufficiently superficial and not an important 

 item a new name for the committee such as the Science and Technology Committee 

 or some such terminology as that. 



Once the new name was included in the December 7, 1973 working 

 draft, it stuck, and was included in the revised legislation passed in 

 1974 to become permanent in 1975- 



WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES 



Neither the Boiling committee nor the Science Committee were 

 idle following the printing of the December 7 working draft. The 

 Boiling committee was carrying on intensive discussions with indi- 

 vidual Members, committee chairmen and staff, and outside groups 

 who could help build a consensus through making additional sugges- 

 tions for improvements in the highly tentative draft. There were 

 many memoranda floating back and forth within the Science Commit- 

 tee as various staff members analyzed the implications of the Decem- 

 ber 7 draft. Teague was on the phone frequently, and engaged in 

 numerous conversations with Boiling to encourage the Boiling com- 

 mittee to stick to its initial inclination to enhance the power and 

 jurisdiction of the Science Committee. Sheldon was working quietly 

 behind the scenes toward the same objective. As Chairman of the 

 Democratic caucus, Teague was in a strategic position to exert his 

 prestige in an influential way. Completely sold on the importance of 

 coordinating energy research and development, encouraged by the 

 successful efforts of McCormack as leader of the task force and Sub- 

 committee on Energy, and convinced that the Science Committee must 

 expand or descend toward oblivion, Teague found a very sympathetic 

 audience in Boiling and other members of Boiling's committee. 



