Lamar Smith

Secretary Sebelius rightly called this 'a debacle.'

The Administration's willful disregard for public accountability distracts from the important issues of how America can stay ahead of China, Russia, and other countries in the highly competitive race for technological leadership.

the Administration should reevaluate its priorities if we want to continue to be a world leader in science, space, and technology.

Unfortunately, this Administration's science budget focuses, in my view, too much money, time, and effort on alarmist predictions of climate change.

All government employees and their agency heads need to remember they are accountable to the American taxpayer who pays their salary and funds their projects.

The White House's approach has been to raid NASA's budget to fund the Administration's environmental agenda.

But meanwhile, the Administration doesn't give as great a priority to NASA as it does to a lot of other programs.

We need to make up for lost ground.

And again, it appears by the cuts that the Administration's priorities do not coincide with this Committee's priorities, but I thank you for your answers.

How are we going to conduct background checks that are required in the foreign countries where they are from?

But these refugees have sometimes only been here for a few days. Obviously, they are not going to have a record in this country.

I don't see how you conduct that in any meaningful way.

The President recently announced a change in our refugee policy. I believe he changed existing law...

That is a reckless disregard for the American public's safety, in my judgment.

First of all, I want to thank the gentleman from Virginia, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, for yielding me time, and I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Gowdy) for introducing this bill. Mr. Chairman, very…

I asked you about the tens of thousands of individuals who are being released from detention by the administration, criminal aliens, who then went on to commit thousands of serious crimes.

The removals by ICE are higher than they have been previously. That is correct.

The American people continue to oppose amnesty, and they are putting their Member of Congress on notice. A Washington Post-ABC national survey released last week shows that 39 percent of registered voters are less likely, and only 27…

I support the Equitable Access to Care and Health (EACH) Act. This bill provides a modest expansion of the religious conscience exemption in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This bipartisan legislation has 218 cosponsors. The ACA currently…

The issue of immigration continues to simmer, but it is not because of any substantive news in Congress. It is driven by the media and the coverage is slanted. In the last 3 months, the three Capitol Hill publications have run over 30…

Let me say to my friend from California, we have one more speaker on this side, and if he is prepared to close, then we will go to our last speaker.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 2, lines 7 to 8, strike ``within the coal category'' and insert ``within a fossil-fuel category''. The…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 2 Offered by Mrs. Capps The Acting CHAIR. It is now…

How much time remains on either side? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Texas has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from California has 3 minutes remaining.

It is time for NASA to tell us how they intend to achieve that goal.