Lamar Smith: “I just want to say to the gentlewoman from Wisconsin that I appreciate her offering the amendment, and I urge my…”

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.

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…

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