WASHINGTON Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) one of Congress most outspoken climate change deniers is using the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to push his own agenda.

In addition to harassing federal climate scientists and issuing subpoenas to seemingly everyone looking into oil giant Exxon Mobils suppression of climate change research , the committee chairman is loading hearings with witnesses who largely agree with his personal views.

Its normal for the majority party to pick the bulk of a hearings panelists. What many find shocking, however, is who Smith is choosing to invite.

The congressman tackled the subject of Making EPA Great Again last month by turning to a coal lawyer, a chemical industry lobbyist and a libertarian scholar who recently accused the Environmental Protection Agency of regulatory terrorism. The committees Democratic minority chose the fourth witness: Rush Holt Jr., chief executive of the nonprofit American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Wednesday is shaping up to be more of the same, with a panel of witnesses stacked 3-to-1 in Smiths favor. This time around, the subject is climate change.

The hearing, titled Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications, and the Scientific Method , will examine the scientific method and process as it relates to climate change and focus on the underlying science that helps inform policy decisions, according to a hearing charter. To do that, Smith has invited a trio of prominent, like-minded climate change skeptics.

The ultimate goal, as the committee noted on Twitter, will be making scientific debate great again .