Thad Cochran: “We're asking for a little over $17 billion in fiscal year 2011 to continue the R&D in all sorts of areas.”

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

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 want to know what the priorities are for funding.

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