Jerry Brown: “I am going to come down in opposition to this amendment, but I would like to provide a little background beforehand. Mr.…”

“I am going to come down in opposition to this amendment, but I would like to provide a little background beforehand. Mr. Chairman, this is not an all black or white situation. We see emerging here, expressed in debate on both sides, a recognition that we do need more funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. I thoroughly agree with that, and would support every reasonable effort to achieve that kind of funding. We also, I think, see on both sides a recognition that we need to continue with the program of fossil energy research and development. That program, of course, has been under attack for several years because we point, as we have seen here on the floor today, to the mature coal and oil industry and say, why can they not do their own research. Well, they could if they wanted to spend the money. But their biggest priority is selling more oil and coal, not in doing research. What we have in the present research program, as the distinguished chairman of the subcommittee pointed out, is a working partnership between industry and the Government in which we are getting these companies to do the research by giving them an incentive. We are offering to match a part of the money.”