Lamar Smith: “We must better recognize what the private sector can do to aid our efforts to protect the world.”

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

I have no other requests for time either, and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Woodall). The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Smith) that the House suspend the rules and…

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…