Lamar Smith: “The President's pledge creates an international agreement that binds the United States for decades to come, but lacks…”

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.

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 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…