Lamar Smith: “It is time for the United States to reassert its leadership.”

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

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

With the Speaker's allowance and permission, we have another speaker on his way to the House floor who we expect to be here in another 30 seconds, so if I could talk slowly and go on for another 30 seconds, I think the gentleman from Texas…

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…