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The need for an independent NOAA
There is a story, possibly just a legend, that when President Nixon created the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) through executive action in 1970, he chose to house it in the Department of Commerce because he was angry with his secretary of the Interior for publicly criticizing his policies on Vietnam. While that story may or may not be true, here are the facts: NOAA was never a great fit in the Commerce Department, and it has never been authorized in law. Instead, NOAA exists through a patchwork of roughly 200 statutes and executive orders. For an organization of the size and scope of NOAA, this is problematic, and it is long past time to give it legislative auth

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