Thad Cochran: “I do want to congratulate our panel for the leadership you're providing for our Armed Forces.”

Mr. Chairman, let me join you in congratulating our panel here and the participation you're bringing to this challenge.

This subcommittee will reconvene on Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 10:30 a.m.

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.