Thad Cochran: “Ensuring that the Corps has adequate funding to meet its responsibilities is a high priority of mine.”

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.

If we go back in sequestration, what affect would it have on the Corps of Engineers, Mr. Speer?

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

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.