Thad Cochran: “We are reviewing this morning the proposed budget request for the National Guard and Reserve.”

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.

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.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.