Helping shape legislative policy
DOI: 10.1063/1.3037668
We came to Congress in the plateau of the energy crisis. The initial crunch of the oil embargo, with its resulting gasoline lines, was already past by the time we became APS Congressional Fellows, but Project Independence was still very much on people’s lips. Energy was only one of many subjects the Congress addressed during our year on Capitol Hill, 1974–75, but it was one of the most important ones and one that is of continuing interest to physicists and the community at large.
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Allan Hoffman. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee staff member.
Thomas Moss. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works staff members.
Haven Whiteside. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works staff members.
