Motherboard has the article Congress’s Science Committee Doesn’t Get Science.

According to its charter, the Science committee holds “Legislative jurisdiction and general oversight and investigative authority on all matters relating to science policy and science education.” Created in 1958, after the launch of Sputnik, the committee was responsible for launching NASA and laying the foundation for the U.S. space program. While science-related legislation can come from anywhere, whether it’s the president or a congressman under the sway of drug company lobbying, the science committee, like other committees, is meant to filter and rule on that legislation.

Its credentials wouldn’t bowl over many scientists. Rep. Akin has a degree from Worcester Polytech in Engineering Management and worked for IBM as an engineer, while Rep. Paul Broun is an M.D., with a background in chemistry. On the Democrat side, Rep. Paul Tonko is a mechanical engineer by training and helped lead New York’s energy R&D authority. Roscoe Barlett of Maryland was once director of a Space Life Sciences research group at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Donna Edwards of Maryland once worked for Lockheed Corporation at the Goddard Space Flight Center during the Spacelab program. But many have no scientific expertise at all.

Is this kind of governance what you expect when you vote Republican? No matter what you expect, this is what you get. We didn’t surpass the Russians in space exploration in the 1960s with this kind of science. We are dependent on the Russians in space now that we do have this kind of science. As I have said before, the Republican motto ought to be, “Government does not work. Elect us, and we will show you what we mean.”

Thanks to RogerG for giving me a clue as to where to find this article.