Thad Cochran: “There are still some questions that need to be asked and raised about whether people are being treated fairly in the…”

I am concerned that the 22 percent funding cut proposed for NIH could negatively affect longstanding research endeavors.

Ensuring that the Corps has adequate funding to meet its responsibilities is a high priority of mine.

We appreciate very much your leadership in the research effort and we commend you and those who work with you for helping make sure we have what we need in order to make our nation safe and secure.

And I plan to use my best efforts to identify the areas that we can make improvements in, and take a hard look, but at the same time realize we need to get a bill.