Lamar Smith: “There is bipartisan support within Congress that NASA stay on track with the Orion crew vehicle and Space Launch System.”

If space exploration is going to continue to earn the public's support, then contractors will have to deliver on time and on budget.

I thank the vice chairman of the Space Subcommittee for yielding me time, and I appreciate all that Mr. Brooks, the gentleman from Alabama, has done for space exploration and for spaceflight. The House Science, Space, and Technology…

Energy produced from fossil fuel is abundant, affordable and vital to America's security and competitiveness.

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…