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Although the Senate has already passed its version of the measure and the House of Representatives is scheduled to consider the bill during its November "lame duck" session, "Harvard is damned concerned that the differences on the Hill and political obstacles may threaten" the legislation, Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said yesterday...
Harvard officials joined several other schools, including Stanford University, the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in lobbying for Congressional approval of this legislation, "commenting and helping to develop the final language of some sections of both bills," Coddington said...
...Coddington explained that the proposed legislation would provide Harvard with royalties and license fees if patented discoveries are developed into marketable products. "It would not be an enormous amount, but it is always good to bring in 'free money' to finance the efforts of the young investigator," Coddington said...
...compensate for the delays, the University tried this year to lobby in Congress for a tax credit that would help defray construction costs for cogeneration facilities. But it was a tax credit, and as Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations says, "tax credits have a very hard time in the Ways and Means Committee." The University lobbied hard for the proposal but eventually it died. "We were running against a very strong current," Coddington explains, adding, "it was not just somebody taking aim at Harvard or at MATEP...
...federal arena, however, the colleges' relationship is less clear cut. "I guess I represent only Harvard," says Parker L. Coddington, who as Harvard's director of government relations conducts a high proportion of the University's lobbying in Washington. While Coddington says that he has represented Radcliffe on some issues, particularly pertaining to federal student aid programs, there is no set pattern...