Lamar Smith: “I am disappointed in the Department's repeated refusal to cooperate with this Committee's oversight requests.”

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.

It is time for NASA's contractors to deliver.

My hope is that every member of the committee will sponsor it or at least a majority.

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…