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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysapka0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP TRANSPORTATION AND HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Susan Collins (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Collins, Blunt, Boozman, Capito, Reed, Mikul- ski, Coons, Schatz, and Murphy. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. ANTHONY FOXX, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR SUSAN M. COLLINS Senator COLLINS. The subcommittee will come to order. Today, we welcome Secretary Foxx, who will testify on the Presi- dent's fiscal year 2017 budget request for the Department of Trans- portation (DOT) as well as Inspector General Scovel, who will dis- cuss his office's budget request and the oversight and other work the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has been and will be con- ducting at the Department. The budget proposes $98 billion for the Department of Transpor- tation in mandatory and discretionary spending for fiscal year 2017. The administration has asserted that this request abides by the bipartisan budget agreement Congress passed last year. Re- grettably, that is simply not accurate. Instead of living within fiscal reality, the budget evades the caps by using the same old gimmicks that we have seen in past pro- posals. By shifting programs from discretionary to mandatory, the President is able to show a 36-percent reduction in spending under the budget caps. At the same time, he takes credit for increasing DOT's overall budget by almost 30 percent. This undermines the essence of the budget agreement. I am also disappointed that just 3 months after Congress passed the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), the budget proposes an entirely new 10-year, $495 billion, 21st Century Clean Transportation plan on top of the FAST Act. It is paid for by a new $10.25 per barrel tax on crude oil and other unspecified business tax reforms. (1)

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