Lamar Smith: “As the Framers of the Constitution understood, Congress has an independent duty to examine the constitutionality of the…”

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…

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

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.