Lamar Smith: “I was pleased to see in the fiscal year 2019 budget a refocus on the biological and environmental research programs on…”

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

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.

With clear Congressional direction, strong White House leadership, and NASA's tremendous expertise, we have all the resources available to make significant progress in human space exploration.

I have no other requests for time on this side, so I am prepared to yield back if the gentlewoman from Texas is prepared to yield back. Before I do, I just want to thank the ranking member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee…