Abstract
The House Committee on Science took the Clinton Administration to task last month during hearings, questioning the validity of Clinton's predictions for future research and development funding under the balanced budget plan. Chairman Robert S. Walker (R-Pa.) said he is trying to find out if the president is serious about his projected budgets, or if he has just submitted spurious numbers to placate a Republican Congress. While this would appear to be a reasonable objective for a congressional committee, Walker has been criticized for calling the hearings solely to disparage Clinton. I don't see how these hearings are going to assist us, said committee member Harold L. Volkmer (D-Mo.). It's just a political witch hunt to make the president look bad. You have brought this committee down to being a political arm of the Republican Party, he charged. Despite this rhetoric, some Democrats voiced concern about how the numbers were arrived at. Former committee chairman ...
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