PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE OF ADVISORS
ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYSenate Russell Building,
Commerce Committee Hearing Room, Room SR253
September 17, 1998
AGENDA
2:05 P.M. Perspective from the House of Representatives:
Representative Vernon J. Ehler's (R-MI) Discussionof the
Nation's Science Policy Report
Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI)—S&T
Budget Considerations, Planning for the Future
Representative George E. Brown, Jr. (D-CA)—S&T
Budget Considerations, Planning for the Future
PCAST Discussion
2:45 P.M. Perspective from the Senate
Senator Bill Frist (F-TN) – S&T Budget Considerations,
Planning for the Future, S-2217
Senator John D. Rockefeller, IV – S&T Budget
Considerations, Planning for the Future, S-2217
PCAST Discussion
3:30 P.M. State and Local Perspective on S&T – Making PartnershipsWork
Gary Bachula, Acting Under Secretary, Technology
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Former Governor Dick Thornburgh, Co-chair State Scienceand
Technology Institute
State Practitioners' Panel:
Delbert J. Schuh, II, President, Indiana Business Modernization
Technology Corporation
Dr. Carolyn Sales, President, Oklahoma Center for the
Advancement of Science and Technology
Edward A. O'Connor, Jr., Executive Director, Spaceport
Florida Authority
PCAST Discussion
4:20 P.M. BREAK
4:30 P.M. Report on National Academy of Sciences, Study of S&Tin the
Department of State: “Science, Technology, and Health Issues
and U.S. Foreign Policy.”
Dr. Robert A. Frosch, National Academy of Sciences Study
Chairman, (Senior Research Fellow, John F.Kennedy School
Of Government at Harvard University)
Dr. Glen Schweitzer, Director, Office for Central Europeand
Eurasia, Office of International Affairs,National Academy of
Sciences
PCAST Discussion
5:00 P.M. PCAST Study of International Cooperation in Energy
R&D – Dr. John Holdren
PCAST Discussion
5:30 P.M. Public Comments
5:45 P.M. Adjourn the Plenary Session
