Lamar Smith: “Last June, the Obama Administration proposed sweeping new electricity regulations.”

We can be confident that he is striving to tackle the program management issues NASA faces, specifically those associated with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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

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

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…