Lamar Smith: “The future of this Nation's exploration efforts lead to Mars. The first flag to fly on another planet in our solar…”

We can be confident that he is striving to tackle the program management issues NASA faces, specifically those associated with the James Webb Space Telescope.

I support the continuation of JWST to mission completion and appreciate Administrator Bridenstine's efforts to improve contractor performance.

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

I have further speakers, but I will yield to the ranking member if she has any speakers. I reserve the balance of my time.