Thad Cochran: “I am concerned about your recent comments suggesting that agriculture may benefit from cap-and-trade offsets.”

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.

If we go back in sequestration, what affect would it have on the Corps of Engineers, Mr. Speer?

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.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.