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HKIORY OF THE COMMITTH i >\ s( ll-NCE AND TECHNOLOGY 



to call Webb frequently on the phone, sit down with Webb in his 

 office, have lunch with him, and even ask Ducander to call Webb 

 personally to straighten out any problem. 

 \\ ebb recalls: 



W c worked ver) closely together. As a matter of fact, Congressman Miller had 

 asked me when he became chairman of the committee how wc could best work 

 together, Vfter we had discussed this for some time, he decided to set up subcom- 

 mittees patterned very much after the NASA structure. So there was a Committee on 

 Manned Space Flighi dealing with Dr. Mueller, and Mr. Brainerd Holmes before 

 him, in the field of Manned Space Flight. 



There was a Committee on Science which was dealing with the scientific side of 

 \ W\ our structure, our organizational structure, fitted in very neatly with the 

 committee structure of subcommittees. And this meant that the people in the sub- 

 committees that the committee would look to for final judgments were in close 

 personal contact with people in NASA who were working in the same field. And 

 they developed an intimate working relationship 



With relation to informal contacts and committee trips to installa- 

 tions, Webb also recalls: 



We brought the subcommittees of the House Committee on Science and Astro- 

 nautics which is now the Committee on Science and Technology together with our 

 important leaders for a face-to-face contact at a small, intimate hearing. And it was 

 after this basic laying of groundwork and understanding that Congressman Teague 

 and many others went out then to the centers to see what was going on, to the 

 contractors' plants that were doing the work. 



MEMBERSHIP AND SUBCOMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 



When the 2d session of the 87th Congress convened in January 

 1962, the following Members constituted the Science and Astronautics 

 Committee: 



Democrats 



George P. Miller, California, Chairman 



Olin E. Teague, Texas 



Victor L. Antuso, New York 



Joseph E. Karth, Minnesota 



Ken Hechler, West Virginia 



Emilio Q. Daddario, Connecticut 



Walter II, Moeller, Ohio 



David S. King, Utah 



J. Edward Roush, Indiana 



Thomas G. Morris, New Mexico 



Dob Casey, Texas 



William J. Randall, Missouri 



John W. Davis, Georgia 



William F. Ryan, New York 



James C. Corman, California 



Thomas N. Downing, Virginia 



Joe D. Waggonner, Jr. .Louisiana 



Republicans 



Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Massachusetts 

 James G. Fulton, Pennsylvania 

 J. Edgar Chenoweth, Colorado 

 William K. Nan Pelt, Wisconsin 

 Perkins Bass, New Flampshirc 

 R. Walter Riehlman, New York 

 Jessica M.C. Weis, New York 

 Charles A. Mosher, Ohio 

 Richard L. Roudebush, Indiana 

 Alphonzo Bell, California 

 Thomas M. Pelly, Washington 



