Lamar Smith: “I hope they will decide to help American companies protect their intellectual property from being infringed by foreign…”

If space exploration is going to continue to earn the public's support, then contractors will have to deliver on time and on budget.

First of all, I would like to thank the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson) for those nice comments. And she is right, this was a very bipartisan effort and a very bipartisan bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the…

It is truly staggering to behold how this space telescope's cost and schedule projections went from costing the same as a space shuttle mission--around half-a-billion dollars with an original launch date in 2007--to now becoming an…

As I said yesterday, when government contractors make mistakes, typically no one is held accountable.