Lamar Smith actually said...

The NSF, as well as its grantees and contractors, need to be held accountable for how they spend taxpayers' hard-earned dollars.

We have pushed the NSF to exert greater oversight controls of the construction project, which seemed to be plagued with problems.

The IG issued an alert memorandum this week that details further inappropriate expenditures by NEON discovered by the NSF.

This morning's hearing will focus on one of the National Science Foundation's most ambitious major research facility projects...