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Among new 1979 members of the Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee 

 were Representatives Donald J. Pease (Democrat of Ohio), left, and Donald Lawrence Ritter 

 (Republican of Pennsylvania), right. 



The publicity took its toll, however, and the Ashbrook amend- 

 ment was adopted by a vote of 219 to 174. Committee members voting 

 with Ashbrook were Anthony, Carney, Davis, Dornan, Flippo, 

 Glickman, Goldwater, Hance, Kramer, Lujan, Roth, Volkmer, 

 Walgren, Walker, Watkins, White, and Winn. 



The conference committee restored all but $2 million of the 

 Ashbrook cut, and the compromise cleared the House on July 13, 

 1979. Hollenbeck, an outspoken supporter of NSF, warned: 



I would think that, considering some of the more outrageous. |argon that social 

 scientists use, it would be appropriate for the NSF to recommend or require a basic 

 English course for many of its grantees. 



DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND NSF EDUCATION PROGRAMS 



When the proposed Department of Education was under consid- 

 eration in 1978, Fuqua as a member of the House Government Opera- 

 tions Committee sponsored an amendment in that committee deleting 

 the proposed transfer of NSF education programs to the new depart- 

 ment. The Fuqua amendment passed in 1978. 



In 1979, the White House, through the Office of Seance and 

 Technology Policy, persuaded Fuqua that it would be desirable for 



