I support the continuation of JWST to mission completion and appreciate Administrator Bridenstine's efforts to improve contractor performance.

We can be confident that he is striving to tackle the program management issues NASA faces, specifically those associated with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Roskam) for yielding me time, and I thank another gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rodney Davis) for introducing this legislation. The Equitable Access to Care and Health Act is a bill that…

If space exploration is going to continue to earn the public's support, then contractors will have to deliver on time and on budget.

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

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

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…

I look forward to hearing about the promise of fossil energy technologies from our witnesses today and how DOE-funded research supports technological innovations that improve the efficiency, environmental impact, and safety of fossil fuels.

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.

While research on carbon capture, storage, and sequestration technologies remains a priority, there is also potential to research ways to use carbon as an energy resource.