Lamar Smith: “This rule represents massive costs without significant benefits. In other words, it's all pain and no gain.”

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

I have no other requests for time either, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Woodall). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) that the House suspend the rules and…

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

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…