Excerpt from Hearing on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Fiscal Year 1996 Budget of the National Science Foundation: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, March 30, 1995 Staff members assigned to this Hearing: Louis C. Whitsett, stat'it counsel, and Timothy B. Kyger, professional staff member; and Patrick H. Windham, minority senior professional staff. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.