Thad Cochran: “I am concerned about the elimination of the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant.”

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.

We want to know what the priorities are for funding.