Lamar Smith: “These basic research programs are the core mission of the department and will lead to scientific discoveries that will…”

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…

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…

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

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