Lamar Smith: “If the Administration does not support planetary science, how can they claim to have serious interest in human space…”

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.

Now that the Independent Review Board has completed its work, we should review the decades-long JWST cost overruns and schedule delays.

We can be confident that he is striving to tackle the program management issues NASA faces, specifically those associated with the James Webb Space Telescope.

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