Thad Cochran: “We look forward to working with you on this issue. It is very important, and I think it needs our best efforts.”

I wish to honor former Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, who passed away September 13 in Albuquerque. It was a privilege to call Pete a friend and to work with him as a Senate colleague and member of the Appropriations Committee…

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.

Ensuring that the Corps has adequate funding to meet its responsibilities is a high priority of mine.

I am concerned that the 22 percent funding cut proposed for NIH could negatively affect longstanding research endeavors.