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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysabhr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, AND RE- LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014 THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2013 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:01 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Mark L. Pryor (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Pryor and Blunt. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE STATEMENTS OF: DOUG O'BRIEN, ACTING UNDER SECRETARY, RURAL DEVELOP- MENT ANN MILLS, ACTING UNDER SECRETARY, NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT DARCI L. VETTER, ACTING UNDER SECRETARY, FARM AND FOR- EIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICES ACCOMPANIED BY MICHAEL YOUNG, BUDGET OFFICER OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR MARK L. PRYOR Senator PRYOR. I'll go ahead and bring the hearing to order. I want to thank everyone for being here. We have a little bit of a new game plan today because the Senate has announced that we're having votes at 10:30 a.m. So what I thought I would do is shorten my opening statement. Senator Blunt has agreed to shorten his opening statement, and we'd ask you to shorten your statements if possible, maybe a couple of minutes. Then of course your state- ments will be submitted for the record so we'll have the official record. But let me go ahead and jump in, and our goal would be to actu- ally try to finish the hearing shortly after 10:30 a.m. so the two of us could go make our votes and just try to recess the hearing from there instead of taking a break and coming back. So I want to thank you for coming. This is our final budget hear- ing. Today we will hear from: Ms. Darci Vetter, the Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Ms. Ann Mills, the Acting Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Envi- ronment; and Mr. Doug O'Brien, the Acting-are you noticing a pattern here-- (1)

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