HAPPY NEW YEAR – FIRST MEETING OF 2015 !

 GUEST SPEAKER:  CONGRESSMAN LAMAR SMITH

Congressman Smith represents the 21st Congressional District of Texas.  He serves as  Chairman of the Science,  Space,  and Technology Committee, which has jurisdiction over programs at NASA, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National  Science  Foundation,  the  Federal  Aviation Administration,  and  the  National  Institute  of  Standards  and Technology.  The Committee oversees agency budgets of $39 billion, where the primary focus is on research and development.  Congressman  Smith  continues  to  serve  on  both  the  Judiciary Committee and the Homeland Security Committee.  He is a former Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Ethics Committee.

Representative Smith was ranked the most effective member of the House in the 112th Congress  (2011-2012)  in  a  study  jointly  conducted  by  the  University  of Virginia and Vanderbilt University. He also was named Policymaker of the Year by POLITICO for his work on patent reform legislation during that same Congress. A fifth generation Texan and native of San Antonio, Congressman Smith graduated from Yale University and Southern Methodist University School of Law. He and his wife, Beth, have an adult daughter and son.  The 21st Congressional District includes parts of Bexar, Travis, Comal and Hays Counties and all of Bandera, Blanco, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr and Real Counties.  The district’s population is about 700,000.  Congressman Smith maintains district offices in San Antonio, Austin and Kerrville.

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