Thad Cochran: “Mr. Ayers deserves our accolades and compliments on a successful completion of that work as well.”

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

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

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.

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.