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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaejb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND RE- LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2004 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2003 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 9:01 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Arlen Specter (chairman) presiding. Present: Senator Specter, Craig, Gregg, Harkin, Landrieu, and Kohl. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF TOMMY G. THOMPSON, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ARLEN SPECTER Senator SPECTER. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. The hearing of the Appropriations Subcommittee of Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education will now proceed. Our witness today will be the Secretary of HHS, Secretary Tommy Thompson, the 19th Secretary of the Department which oversees the health and welfare of the Nation. The administration budget has proposed a discretionary account for the Department of Health and Human Services of some $60.7 billion which constitutes an increase of $514 million over the fiscal year 2003 level, which, as obvious, does not even account for an in- flationary increase. This Department has some of the most important funding in our Nation, spanning medical research and Head Start and the low-in- come health and energy costs, known as LIHEAP, and a broad range of very, very important programs. It is, as usual, a very dif- ficult matter in allocating the resources which this subcommittee has for three Departments, the Department of Education, the De- partment of Labor, in addition to this Department. There is special concern about a number of lines. The Centers for Disease Control, which is being asked to take on additional respon- sibilities, as we speak, with this outbreak in China. The National Institutes of Health, which have had extraordinary results, have been limited in this year's suggested funding by the administration (1)

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