Lamar Smith: “While I support many of these areas of research and forecasting, other parts of the President's budget request are…”

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

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

The research done at Department of Energy national laboratories is vital to increasing the fossil fuels' efficiency and reducing environmental impacts.

Energy produced from fossil fuel is abundant, affordable and vital to America's security and competitiveness.