Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Lamar Smith [R, TX-21]

Tea party group floats immigration plan

2013-06-17T01:00:00Z

...chief strategist of TheTeaParty.Net, said his group met with conservatives such as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) before releasing a final draft of the proposal. An aide to Sessions confirmed th

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Letter: Climate change policy right course

2013-06-13T01:00:00Z

...heartfelt editorial, "Climate change gets local," June 5, reflecting climate change becoming vividly local. Republicans like Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas ought to read the Web pages of large oil and gas companies and talk to their top executives. They will

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EPA exaggerated the benefits of regulation

2013-06-13T01:00:00Z

...virtually all of the Agency’s claimed benefits from new Clean Air Act (CAA) rules,” wrote Vitter and Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith in a letter to McCarthy. “Everyone agrees on the importance of clean air, but EPA needs to release the secret da

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Texas hardliners on immigration push border security

2013-06-12T01:00:00Z

...issue and the drug cartels are a prime factor among other criminal enterprises.” At a news conference, Flores and Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, cited a Rasmussen poll showing that voters are more concerned with border security than other elements o

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Opinion: Will we hear Earth’s alarm bells?

2013-06-11T01:00:00Z

...senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. IN A RECENT Op-Ed article for The Washington Post, Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, offered up a reheated stew of isolated factoids and sweeping generalizations about climate science to defend

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Frank Lautenberg and the National Science Foundation

2013-06-09T01:00:00Z

...Hutchinson’s arguments against SBE funding are eerily reminiscent of those being made today by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), and others. The difference is, unlike Hutchinson, when Coburn proposed an amendment in March limiting fundi

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Senate to begin debate on immigration bill that faces long odds in House

2013-06-09T01:00:00Z

...for current illegal immigrants. "Taking individual bills and packaging them will yield a better result," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee. Please enter your email address below to begin receiving the Polit

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Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringing

2013-06-08T01:00:00Z

...is a distinguished senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In a recent op-ed for The Post, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) offered up a reheated stew of isolated factoids and sweeping generalizations about climate science to defend t

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Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringing (opinion)

2013-06-08T01:00:00Z

Climate science tells us the alarm bells are ringing

2013-06-08T01:00:00Z

Republicans: Border security 'litmus test' for immigration bill

2013-06-05T01:00:00Z

...of Alabama to talk immigration. House Republicans including Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, Lamar Smith of Texas, Raul Labrador of Idaho, Trey Gowdy of South Carolina and Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas discuss

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Climate change gets local

2013-06-04T01:00:00Z

...agenda and derides alternative energy investments, the chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, still uses selective statistics to cast doubt on global warming, a trend that is apparent to not only sci

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U.S. House OK's expansion of S.A. missions park

2013-06-03T01:00:00Z

...who represent portions of the park, the bill was co-sponsored by the entire local congressional delegation, including: Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, and Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio. The expansion would add propert

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NASA Discovers Moon on Approaching Asteroid

2013-05-31T01:00:00Z

An asteroid nearly two miles wide will pass by Earth Friday and it will bring with it an unexpected guest: Its own 2,000-foot wide moon. The asteroid, named 1998 QE2, poses no threat to Earth and its closest pass – at 4:59 p.m. EDT - will be approximatel

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Rep. Lamar Smith on climate change

2013-05-31T01:00:00Z

Lamar Smith is a Republican representing Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives and is chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. I reproduce his op-ed in its entirety: Climate change is an issue that needs to be discussed thou

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A mission on climate change

2013-05-30T01:00:00Z

President Obama should spend his remaining years in office making the United States part of the solution to climate change, not part of the problem. If Congress sticks to its policy of obstruction and willful ignorance, Obama should use his executive pow

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It’s past time to focus on climate

2013-05-27T01:00:00Z

...of uncertainty associated with climate science.” Oh wait, that’s a quote from an op-ed in The Washington Post by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Yes, this is the officially designated scie

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House, Senate nearing showdown over immigration reform

2013-05-24T01:00:00Z

...available under President Obama's health care reforms. "I think the House is going to have its own good bill," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas. But even as the House and Senate advance their own versions of the bill, differences between them could ultima

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Eugene Robinson: Obama must focus attention on climate change

2013-05-24T01:00:00Z

...a great amount of uncertainty associated with climate science. Oh wait, thats a quote from an Op-Ed in The Washington Post by Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Yes, this is the officially design

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A mission on climate change (opinion)

2013-05-24T01:00:00Z

...amount of uncertainty associated with climate science.” Oh, wait, that’s a quote from an op-ed in The Washington Post by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Yes, this is the officially designa

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