Thad Cochran in USA Today

On Environment: The Quiet Persuader: Got $29B for Katrina rebuilding

Cochran has been in the Senate since 1978, after serving first in the House for three terms. Cochran is perhaps best known for his leadership of the Appropriations Committee , which allocates federal spending to a host of programs. Although he promised to rein in spending, Cochran's chairmanship of the committee from 2005 to 2007 came as Mississippi and the Gulf Coast were trying to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.

Cochran helped obtain $29 billion for the devastated region in 2006 and earned the nickname "The Quiet Persuader" from Time magazine for steering the spending past fiscal conservatives.

He is also one of the Senate's top farm policy experts, and served as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005. Cochran is playing a lead role in negotiating legislation that would reauthorize $500 billion in farm programs. He remains the top Republican on the Appropriations Committee's agriculture and defense panels.

Source: USA Today on 2014 Mississippi Senate race Dec 6, 2013

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