Lamar Smith: “I want to thank Perlmutter for substantially improving the legislation.”

This Committee has demonstrated time and again that U.S. leadership in space is a bipartisan priority.

I thank the gentlewoman from Virginia (Mrs. Comstock), the chairwoman of the Research and Technology Subcommittee, for yielding me time to speak on her legislation. The bill, H.R. 6229, the National Institute of Standards and Technology…

While research on carbon capture, storage, and sequestration technologies remains a priority, there is also potential to research ways to use carbon as an energy resource.

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…