Lamar Smith: “The research done at Department of Energy national laboratories is vital to increasing the fossil fuels' efficiency and…”

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.

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…

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

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