Lamar Smith: “The NSF, as well as its grantees and contractors, need to be held accountable for how they spend taxpayers' hard-earned…”

Now that the Independent Review Board has completed its work, we should review the decades-long JWST cost overruns and schedule delays.

I thank the gentleman from California for his comments and also for his initiatives on the subject of energy in so many ways. Several other bills that we are considering are a result of that initiative. Mr. Speaker, I have no other…

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…