Thad Cochran: “Every time I see the acronym THAAD, it makes me wonder: What am I doing in this question here?”

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

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

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.