Thad Cochran: “If we need additional funding or some priority readjustments, we hope you'll communicate that with us in the appropriate…”

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

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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.

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