This year, a new entry will appear in the legislative branch section of the U.S. Government Organization Manual; the long awaited Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) is now in business. Like the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service or the General Accounting Office, OTA is an arm of the legislative branch. Its assignment is to help congressional committees better assess the impacts of new technologies that Congress is called upon the regulate or finance. The Office is headed by former Congressman "Mim" Daddario, who pioneered what is now the legislation establishing OTA (the Technology Assessment Act of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-484). Twelve Senators and Congressmen serve as OTA's Board of Directors, under the bipartisan leadership of Chairman Senator Edward Kennedy and Vice Chairman Congressman Charles Mosher.