RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS UNITED Sommig HEARINGS BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS Food and Nutrition Service and Human Nutrition Information Service 637 Farmers Home Administration and Office of Rural Development Policy 901 Investigative Report 1246 47-481 O Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1985 A628 1985 рич COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi, Chairman EDWARD P. BOLAND, Massachusetts JOSEPH P. ADDABBO, New York EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California TOM BEVILL, Alabama BILL CHAPPELL, JR., Florida BILL ALEXANDER, Arkansas JOHN P. MURTHA, Pennsylvania BOB TRAXLER, Michigan JOSEPH D. EARLY, Massachusetts LINDY (MRS. HALE) BOGGS, Louisiana MATTHEW F. MCHUGH, New York VIC FAZIO, California W. G. (BILL) HEFNER, North Carolina LES AUCOIN, Oregon DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii WES WATKINS, Oklahoma WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania BERNARD J. DWYER, New Jersey BILL BONER, Tennessee STENY H. HOYER, Maryland BOB CARR, Michigan ROBERT J. MRAZEK, New York RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois SILVIO O. CONTE, Massachusetts ELDON RUDD, Arizona CARL D. PURSELL, Michigan TOM LOEFFLER, Texas JOHN EDWARD PORTER, Illinois FREDERICK G. MOHRMAN, Clerk and Staff Director (II) 85-601936 4822161 AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1986 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1985. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE WITNESSES ORVILLE G. BENTLEY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY, SCIENCE AND EDUCATION TERRY B. KINNEY, JR., ADMINISTRATOR, AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE MARY É. CARTER, ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS J. ARMY, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, NATIONAL PROGRAM STAFF ARTHUR H. NIES, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR, ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGE- JOHN R. VICTOR, DIRECTOR, BUDGET AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT STAFF STEPHEN B. DEWHURST, BUDGET OFFICER, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OPENING REMARKS Mr. WHITTEN. The Subcommittee will come to order. We are glad to have you here today. I don't know of anyone, any group, that has more awareness of the benefits of agricultural research than Members of this Subcommittee. By the same token, we have perhaps complained about as much as anyone because we do not have evidence that we can take to the floor to support agricultural research. If we don't get the information from you, we don't have it to take to our colleagues. And lately in the past we have wondered whether reorganizations haven't been structured so we could not see what was going on so we could present Congress's idea about what was important and what was not-our own views. Particularly point out the difference between applied research and basic research, between competitive research and special research. As someone said, a fellow who's involved in research doesn't want any directives; he wants to follow his own idea about which way to go. And if he can spend a lifetime at it, it's not bad. But we have to fight against those things. We recognize the need for basic research, but when you have got lots of problems like we have now, and then we have to go on the floor and try to sell basic research and neglect that study which is needed right now, we are hard put to do that. |