Palazzo has been a thoroughly forgettable chair of the Space & Aeronautics subcommittee. His hallmark phrase is that NASA is lost and we don’t know what we’re doing in space. But his actions haven’t helped us to solve the problem. His Authorization bill for NASA offered little, if any, illumination and creativity about NASA’s predicament, aside from mandating some busy-work reportage by the agency, and pretty much just follows the beaten path. In fact, Lamar Smith, now Science Committee Chair, has done some heavy lifting on behalf of NASA policy (for better or worse) perhaps because his Subcommittee chair can’t pull it off. Some of the best NASA hearings in the House have, in fact, been full Committee hearings.

Am I missing anything?