Thad Cochran: “I share that enthusiasm and commit to you our best efforts here in this subcommittee to identify how we can invest the…”

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.

I understand that the Army's unfunded requirements list includes a $3.1 billion increase in end strength beyond the fiscal year 2017 NDAA mandate.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.