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Proposed Testimony of Dr. John P. McTague 



Deputy Director/ Office of Science and Technology Policy 



Executive Office of the President 



To the Task Force on Science Policy 



Committee on Science and Technology 



United States House of Representatives 



June 20, 1985 



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee: 



i'm pleased to have this chance to meet with the 

 Committee and its Task Force on Science Policy. We have a 

 small luxury here this morning, because we're not focusing 

 on particular legislation or programs/ but on a sense of 

 how federal science policy can best address the future, 

 so/ taking advantage of that opportunity/ i'd like to 

 approach this topic of international science from a 

 different perspective than usual and present our sense of 

 some major concerns that are now emerging. 



as i'm sure these series of hearings have been 

 illustrating/ we're in the midst of momentous and rapid 

 changes in both science and technology themselves/ as well 

 as in the means by which government assesses/ supports/ and 



USES THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. DR. 

 KEYWORTH/ THE PRESIDENT'S SCIENCE ADVISOR/ HAS APPEARED 

 BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE ON MANY OCCASIONS TO OFFER HIS OWN 

 P RSP"^' ■ VES ON THOSE CHANGES AND TO DISCUSS THE RATIONALE 

 .« E:: TAHONS that underlie the ADMINISTRATION'S SCIENCE 



