Lamar Smith: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”

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.

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…

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

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