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committed to reform, hence did not want to be caught voting against 

 reform in a public rollcall vote. Teague ruled that Burton's motion 

 did not require a recorded rollcall, but could be conducted by secret 

 ballot. Enraged at an obviously incorrect ruling, Boiling charged up 

 to the front of the caucus and persuaded Teague that he ought to at 

 least go out and consult the House Parliamentarian, which Teague 

 agreed to do. When Teague returned, he announced that the Parlia- 

 mentarian agreed with his ruling. Boiling simply threw up his hands; 

 he did not learn until later that Teague had presented the whole issue 

 to the Parliamentarian in a somewhat confusing fashion, and the 

 Parliamentarian, who had not been present, gave an equally confusing 

 answer. 



The applecart was upset. Teague, who should have been strongly 

 on the side of the Boiling reforms, was perhaps leaning over backward 

 to be a scrupulously impartial chairman. By secret ballot, the caucus 

 voted 95-81 to take a secret ballot vote on referring the Boiling reforms 

 to the Hansen committee. A glum Boiling saw the handwriting on the 

 wall. By the further secret ballot, the caucus voted 111-95 to sidetrack 

 the carefully devised Boiling recommendations and send them on for 

 study and report by July 17 by the Hansen committee. 



HANSEN" COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS 



"That was a very stormy committee," recalls Mrs. Hansen as 

 she reflected on the complex negotiations during the early summer of 

 1974. "They would each go out and talk to their constituents," Mrs. 

 Hansen said, referring to the crush of lobbyists outside the secret 

 meeting room. During the negotiations, Teague kept in frequent touch 

 with Mrs. Hansen and his other good friends on her committee. 

 "Teague was very, very nice to work with," Mrs. Hansen recalled. "He 

 was interested in protecting his turf, but he was never adamant on it." 

 As head of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, Mrs. Hansen 

 had more than a passing acquaintance with what was being done in 

 the energy field, and she related: "I was convinced the United States 

 was doing very little energy research," hence she was equally inter- 

 ested in concentrating energy research in the Science Committee. 

 She termed the issue of what to give the Science Committee "not a 

 battle at all." 



For Ralph Nader, a long-time opponent of nuclear power, and 

 friend of Burton, there was a somewhat different issue involved. 

 He knew McCormack's strong pronuclear attitude and appreciated 

 the fact that although Holiheld on the Joint Committee on Atomic 

 Energy felt the same as McCormack, Holiheld was ready to retire 

 and McCormack would probably last many years. Nader feared placing 



