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for bringing their research under such an office we might
say, "Let's see if it works on the government-wide basis
and then as a later issue that office could go to the
Congress, assuming that Glenn bill does not already pass,
and say there really are issues with privately funded
research and the best way to ensure that is conducted in an
appropriate way is to bring it under this office.
Finally, one point I did not put up here but I
think is obvious, when one talks about this office I think
it is best not to use the elocution that we used
occasionally at first, which was "elevating OPRR to."
Both for the reason I do not think we should
solely focus on OPRR but it is very likely that just as the
departments have their own ethics offices now to deal with
the conflict of interest and so forth administratively
within their office or agency, and yet there is a
government-wide office of governmental ethics it is very
likely that we need a governmental-wide policy setting,
rule interpreting and maybe investigating body, and an
agency by agency ability to work with their own grantees
and their own researchers to get how the rules apply and
the process of giving the grants and so forth. All that
remains.
It very well may mean that only a small part of