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.)
