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Rep. George Brown (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has decided to take another look at the health of federally funded research. And this time he's created a task force of the folks who do most of the work on Capitol Hill--congressional aides. Five years ago, members from the same committee issued a 22-volume report on the topic that sunk quickly and quietly out of sight. This time around, Brown is determined to make some waves. "We're going to keep it at the staff level...," Brown said at a press briefing last month on a new report from the Office of Technology Assessment that lays out how poorly Congress and the federal government now handle the job of setting priorities in science. "We hope to take a ...
