Thad Cochran: “We are also grateful for the additional $25 million in funding provided by Congress last year.”

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.

We appreciate very much your leadership in the research effort and we commend you and those who work with you for helping make sure we have what we need in order to make our nation safe and secure.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

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