Lamar Smith: “Do you feel that San Francisco and other sanctuary cities are violating current Federal law?”

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

As I said yesterday, when government contractors make mistakes, typically no one is held accountable.

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.

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…