Lamar Smith

Recently, President Obama said that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol; however, the White House's own Web site gives numerous examples to the contrary: First, marijuana use, particularly chronic use that begins at a young age…

Submitted statement of Representative Lamar S. Smith, Chairman, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Let me confess at the outset and say to the Ranking Member Donna Edwards that there are some days I wish she had laryngitis but today is actually not one of them.

When the Obama Administration launched HealthCare.gov, Americans were led to believe that the website was safe and secure.

If Americans' information is not secure, then the theft of their identities is inevitable and dangerous.

I thank the chairman of the committee for yielding me this time. For more than 20 years, the American commercial space industry has benefited from the assurance of the U.S. Government through Federal Aviation Administration launch…

Since 2002 over $362 million in government grants have gone to fund a liberal news organization by the name of Internews. The Business and Media Institute describes Internews as a liberal journalism nonprofit, and states that not only does…

When the Obama Administration launched Healthcare.gov, Americans were led to believe that the website was safe and secure. As the Science, Space, and Technology Committee learned at our hearing in November, this was not the case…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

To achieve the innovations of tomorrow, we must better educate American students today.

It was an atmosphere unlike almost any other hearing I have walked into.

A bill has been introduced by a colleague of ours, Susan Brooks, to change that definition.

I hope this hearing will make clear that the impact of climate change is often exaggerated.

I believe we need to focus on the science and not the politics.

The science is clear and overwhelming but not in the way the President said.

Politicians and others should rely on good science, not science fiction, when they discuss extreme weather.

I thank the gentleman from Florida for yielding me this time. Mr. Speaker, I support H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, and the rule we are debating now. This bipartisan legislation brings much-needed reforms to our patent litigation process…

The discovery of even microbes on another planet would be the most newsworthy story in decades.

Welcome to today's hearing titled 'Astrobiology: the Search for Biosignatures in our Solar System and Beyond.'

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will come to order.

I am prepared to yield back the balance of my time if the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Johnson) is prepared to yield back her time.

We have no other speakers at this time, and I reserve the balance of my time.

The bill we consider today provides stability for our Nation's commercial launch providers so that they can remain competitive in the international market. The bill extends the existing system, which requires commercial launch providers to…

We are now on our last speaker, so if the gentlelady wants to yield back, we can proceed.

We actually have two more individuals who will speak on this side, so if the gentlewoman from Oregon wants to reclaim some time after our next speaker, she is welcome to do so. Meanwhile, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr…