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Science 31 July 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5377, pp. 635 - 636
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5377.635
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
Physicist-Turned-Politician Seeks Middle Ground

Andrew Lawler

When House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) called for a sweeping review of science policy last summer, he gave the job to Representative Vern Ehlers (R-MI), the number two Republican on the House Science Committee. Ehlers, a former physics professor who was recently named one of the three brainiest U.S. House members by Washingtonian magazine, knows he faces a tough sell, because the more detailed the recommendations, the more critics it will attract, including those who may reject it as a partisan document serving the man who requested it. Science interviews Ehlers about his soon-to-be-completed report.

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