Thad Cochran: “The years 0 to 5 are at least as important as the years that children spend in kindergarten through the 12th grade.”

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.

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.

We want to know what the priorities are for funding.