Lamar Smith

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Energy storage is the key to modernizing the grid without sacrificing reliability.

The Subcommittee today is going to examine the Department of Energy's effort to modernize the electrical grid.

This critical research and development will help address vulnerabilities that range from cyberattacks to natural disasters.

Today's hearing will highlight some fascinating technologies and efforts that will empower veterans.

Thank you, Chairwoman Comstock, for holding such an interesting and important hearing today.

I'm a little bit disturbed by, number one, that over and over again I hear don't ever talk about whether or not mankind is the main cause of the temperature changing and the climate changing.

I have in my career been very supportive of trying to develop certain technologies that I consider to be more efficient at providing the energy needs for the people of the world.

Technology, though, provides the solution.

The answer that we've been given in terms of mitigation versus adaptation is that we need controls over people's lives and make their decisions for them rather than adapt economically and elsewise.

Overreaching and costly regulations like the Obama Clean Power Plan do little to reduce emissions.

Instead of relying on big government to solve climate change problems, we should look to technological innovations.

I was pleased to see in the fiscal year 2019 budget a refocus on the biological and environmental research programs on genomic science.

The censorship of Conservative voices by social media has become more frequent and the consequences more serious.

While we are all familiar with terrestrial or Earth weather, what exactly space weather is and why it deserves our attention is much less widely understood.

I look forward to learning from our witnesses today and hearing their insights and perspectives on this topic.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter) for his enthusiasm about space. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Rohrabacher), who is a very active member of the Science, Space and Technology…

I thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Bera), the ranking member of the Space Subcommittee, for the comments that he just delivered, and also for cosponsoring this piece of legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield 8 minutes to the gentleman…

Morning Consult recently asked Americans about their views of television's political bias. Respondents were four times as likely to say television programs present a more liberal perspective than a conservative one. The liberal media…

Foreign countries' attempts to access and steal U.S. research and development pose an acute risk to our national and economic security.

Activist judges have joined liberal Democrats to stop President Trump's policies. Federal trial judges have abused their authority by issuing almost two dozen nationwide injunctions to block the Trump administration's actions. According to…

I do appreciate the direction that you're taking the agency now compared to the last Administration.

We are committed to maintaining America's leadership in science, thereby ensuring future economic prosperity.

We need to invest in young people who will go into fields where there is a national need and good-paying jobs.

This will not change unless taxpayers' money is better invested.