CIA Pick Puts Science Chair Boehlert on the Hot Seat.

Representative Sherwood Boehlert who heads the House Science Committee and was recently named temporary head of the House Intelligence Committee too. Boehlert's double play was prompted by U.S. President George W. Bush's August 10 decision to nominate Representative Porter Coss to be the next head of the Central Intelligence Agency. Goss resigned from Congress, and House leaders asked Boehlert, a senior member of the intelligence panel, to take his place until they can pick a permanent successor. Boehlert, however, says he is probably not interested in the intelligence job, in part because taking it would mean giving up his leadership of the science panel.