Honorable Lamar Smith
United States Representative, Texas, Republican
Representative Smith, of the Twenty-First District of Texas, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1982 and as Bexar County, Texas, Commissioner from 1982 to 1985. He chairs the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and sits on the Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security Committee. The following is from the March 18, 2015, House floor debate on H.R. 1030, the Secret Science Reform Act. H.R. 1030, the Secret Science Reform Act, requires the Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] to base its regulations on unbiased, publicly…
