House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military R&D
The authorizing subcommittee in the House for most, if not all, Department of Defense R&D is the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research and Development. The comparable subcommittee on the Senate side is the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. See http://www.house.gov/MemberWWW.html for the Web sites of all representatives.
Congress deals primarily with two types of bills, authorization and appropriations. Authorizing legislation gives a federal department or agency permission to spend money and sets policy direction; appropriations provide the actual money.
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
2120 Rayburn House Office Bldg, Washington, DC 20515-6035
Phone: (202) 225-4151
http://www.house.gov/hasc/
Floyd Spence (R-SC) - Chairman
Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) - Ranking Minority Member
SUBCOMMITTEE ON MILITARY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
2340 Rayburn House Office Bldg, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-0883
Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) -- chairman
Republicans: Democrats:
Roscoe G. Bartlett (Md.) Owen B. Pickett (Va.)
John R. Kasich (Ohio) -- ranking member
Herbert H. Bateman (Va.) Gene Taylor (Miss.)
Joel Hefley (Colo.) Martin T. Meehan (Mass.)
John M. McHugh (N.Y.) Vic Snyder (Ark.)
John Hostettler (Ind.) Robert Andrews (N.J.)
Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) Patrick J. Kennedy (R.I.)
Van Hilleary (Tenn.) Baron Hill (Ind.)
Joe Scarborough (Fla.) Silvestre Reyes (Texas)
Walter B. Jones Jr. (N.C.) Tom Allen (Maine)
Steven Kuykendall (Ca.) Jim Turner (Texas)
Bob Riley (Ala.) Loretta Sanchez (Calif.)
Donald Sherwood (Pa.) Ciro Rodriguez (Texas)
Howard McKeon (Ca.) John Larson (Ct.)
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Public Information Division
American Institute of Physics
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