[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 116 (Wednesday, July 29, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H8965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              SCIENCE CZAR

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, the President has appointed over 30 new czars 
in the Federal bureaucracy, and I'm concerned about the President's new 
science czar. John Holdren detailed and advocated draconian population 
control methods in a 1977 textbook that he coauthored.
  In it, they state, ``Some coercive proposals deserve discussion, 
mainly because some countries may ultimately have to resort to them 
unless current trends in birth rates are rapidly reversed.''
  They go on to speculate that a program in India to vasectomize 
fathers of large families could have been successful with ``massive 
assistance from the developed world.'' The same chapter later promotes 
readily available abortion services as one of the milder methods 
governments can promote to reduce family size. Some of their ideas are 
quite bizarre. This is the same man who has the ear of the President on 
some of the most important decisions of the day.
  Clearly, we need to watch the office of the science czar carefully 
with an eye toward whether Dr. Holdren will promote policies that 
maintain our cherished liberties or policies that call for the heavy 
hand of government in our private lives.

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