Abstract
This year an extremely broad range of science policy issues will be debated in the U.S. Congress. Nowhere will the action be more intense than in the revamped House Science, Space & Technology Committee under its new chairman, Robert A. Roe (D.-N.J.). Space, energy, science education, biotechnology, high-energy physics, little (or individual-investigator) science, the militarization of science, and international scientific and technological competitiveness will all take the stage as Roe prepares the committee's agenda. The committee was founded as the House Science & Astronautics Committee in 1959 and became criticized for an excessively less-than-skeptical attitude toward space technology. It is still starry-eyed about space with visions of moon and Mars colonization. But technological disasters such as Bhopal, Chernobyl, and especially the space shuttle Challenger have forced upon it uncomfortable questions about the stewardship of science and technology by business and government. Furthermore, the issu...
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