Thad Cochran: “We want to be sure that the budget request is as generous as it can be as well as the appropriations that follow.”

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

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.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.