Thad Cochran: “I was pleased to work with the administration and my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee to secure funding for…”

“I was pleased to work with the administration and my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee to secure funding for the program. It is my intention that any unobligated balances of funds appropriated for project BioShield remain available until expended, as the law requires, to ensure that the program has adequate resources in fiscal year 2005 to continue developing necessary countermeasures.”