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Advice to Congress - continued from pg. 1
and technology
policy issues."
Third,
in the House, H.R.2148 has been introduced to reinstate
the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Introduced
by Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), the bill has been co-sponsored
by approximately 70 Members of the House.
Over
100 Congressional staffers, policy analysts, and academic
and industry leaders participated in last summer's workshop.
In a kick-off breakfast discussion on the Hill, House
Science Chairman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), along with
Congressmen Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), Rush Holt (D-NJ), and
Amo Houghton (R-NY) discussed the issues at length. In
a supporting letter to the workshop, Senator Ted Stevens
(R-AK) noted that "there is great need for balanced analysis
to assist the Congress as it addresses complex, large-scale
issues involving science and technology."
In
preparation for the workshop, speakers wrote a variety
of historical background papers, along with several white
papers which laid out alternative models for institutional
arrangements which might be used to provide improved balanced
analytical S&T advice to the Congress. These papers have
now been combined with other materials to produce a book
which is currently in press at RFF Press.
Several
groups have now become involved in arguing for improved
S&T advice to the Congress. For example, both the
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Discussions were lively in the main meeting and in the
breakout groups.
IEEE
and the ASME, have been actively promoting this agenda.
Several opinion pieces have appeared on this topic since
last summer's workshop including:
Jon
M. Peha, "Congress Needs Nonpartisan Advice on Science,
Technology," IEEE Spectrum, pp. 19-20, September
2001;
M.
Granger Morgan, Amo Houghton, and John H. Gibbons, "Improving
Science and Technology Advice for Congress," Science,
pp. 1999-2000, September 14, 2001; and
Jon
M. Peha, "The Growing Debate Over Science and Technology
Advice for Congress," Communications of the ACM,
2001.
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