Legislating the Nation’s science business
AUG 01, 1977
The scientific and technical information vital to lawmaking is only partly supplied by personnel within Congress and its affiliated offices, leaving a need for input from the scientific community.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3037665
I serve as a member of a small minority in the Congress: those Members of Congress who read this magazine; those who have—or had—science‐related occupations or educational backgrounds in their non‐political “other” lives. Of the 535 Members of the 95th Congress, only six have indicated in their biographies that their previous occupation was in science, while ten more have backgrounds or education in engineering or medicine.
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The Honorable Mike McCormack, Democratic Representative from Washington State.
© 1977 American Institute of Physics
