Lamar Smith: “Four years into the Obama administration, the outlook for jobs in the American economy is disheartening and bleak.”

I thank my friend and colleague from Texas, Roger Williams, for yielding to me. Mr. Speaker, I would like to commemorate the life and public service of our 41st President, George Herbert Walker Bush. President Bush was simply one of the…

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

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

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…