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The Science Committee: Because the Scientist and the Politician Should be Friends

The Science Committee: Because the Scientist and the Politician Should be Friends. Allen Scheie Mather Public Policy Intern Summer 2012. Who I Am and Why I Am Here. Mather Public Policy Internship. Funded by the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts Purpose:

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The Science Committee: Because the Scientist and the Politician Should be Friends

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  1. The Science Committee: Because the Scientist and the Politician Should be Friends Allen Scheie Mather Public Policy Intern Summer 2012

  2. Who I Am and Why I Am Here

  3. Mather Public Policy Internship • Funded by the John and Jane Mather Foundation for Science and the Arts • Purpose: • Fund two undergraduate physics majors to intern in Congress • Get Physicists involved with Public Policy

  4. Where did I work? The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (minority office) The Capitol House Office Buildings Where I Worked

  5. What is the Science Committee? • Committee made up of 39 Congressmembers • Oversees public policy relating to science What does the Committee staff do? Ranking Member Eddie Bernice Johnson ChairmanRalph Hall • Craft legislation on National Science Policy • Prepare hearings for Members of Congress • Write reports and press-releases • Oversee Federal Research Agencies

  6. What Does the Committee do? • Jurisdiction:

  7. What did I do? My responsibilities as an intern

  8. Prepare Hearing materials

  9. Research for Staff • Quantifying NASA technology benefits • Hazardous Chemical Injection Wells • Open Access Scientific Publishing • Contracts to sub-orbital launch companies • Legislation regarding Spaceflight

  10. Building Databases

  11. Hearing Photographer

  12. … and other intern duties.

  13. What Did I Learn? Lessons from this summer

  14. Lessons from the Internship • How Public Policy Works • Networking Skills • Important challenges the country faces And…

  15. Why the Scientist and the Politician Should be Friends • Most problems our country faces have technical aspects • Today, the federal government is one of the biggest sponsors of basic research • Understand strengths and limitations of the scientific process It is necessary to have both politicians who understand science and scientists who understand policy

  16. Acknowledgements • Dr. John Mather • AIP • Kendra Redmond and Jennifer Greenamoyer • The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology • Everybody else who made this possible

  17. Questions?

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