EPILOGUE: FUQUA AND THE FUTURE 



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Chairman Don Fuqua addresses remarks during a committee field trip to Marshall Space 

 Flight Center. From left, Representative Larry Winn, Jr. (Republican of Kansas), Representa- 

 tive Ronnie G. Flippo (Democrat of Alabama) and Dr. William R. Lucas of NASA's MSFC. 

 "HEAO" refers to High Energy Astronomy Observatory. 



RELATIONS WITH APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE 



Fuqua developed the feeling over the years that all too frequently 

 the Science Committee would "pass legislation and then let it proceed 

 on its own merits." He added: 



With the Appropriations Committee, we are now actively working with Eddie 

 Boland (chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee which handles XASA, 

 N T SF and many programs in the Science Committee's jurisdiction) to try and be sure 

 the programs are not eliminated— that they understand what we are trying to do. 

 We've had, I think, reasonably good cooperation. 



Within the committee, Fuqua says: 



I think one of the differences between myself and league is that I have given 

 subcommittee chairmen more autonomy than they have had before, without turning 

 the committee over to them. 



This policy has relieved a lot of the personal antagonisms formerly 

 developed when subcommittee chairmen frequently had to fight for 

 months, sometimes unsuccessfully, to obtain the kind of staff assist- 

 ance they deemed essential to get their jobs done. Under Fuqua, new 

 staff assistants have been brought aboard expeditiously, without the 

 somewhat artificial challenging of "qualifications" which in times 

 past had been frequently used to cover up a desire by either a chairman 

 or committee staff director to centralize power. 



