the new congress and R&D

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Fri, 9 Dec 94 18:26:09 EST
From: Clark Johnson <cjohnson@snap.org>
To: interesting-people@eff.org (interesting-people mailing list)


When I worked in the congress, only 2% of staff and 3 (of 535) congress
people had science or engineering degrees.  After the new folks take over
that number will approach zero.  George Brown (chair of House Sci. Comm.)
will be replaced by Bob Walker whose main claim to fame in 1988-89 time
frame when I was there was an amendment eliminating any R&D govt. funding
to any campus that had a drug conviction.


-clark johnson