Lamar Smith: “Congress should keep this power in mind as we address the future questions of treaty compliance.”

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…

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

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

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