Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) was selected on Wednesday to chair the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which controls, in part, the budgets for NASA, the Department of Energy the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), FEMA and the FAA, among numerous other critical federal agencies.
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