Thad Cochran: “We want to be sure that we provide the resources that are necessary to ensure a sensitive and professional standard of…”

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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

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.