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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysarzl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:35 a.m. in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Cochran, Alexander, Graham, Capito, Lankford, Kennedy, Rubio, Murray, Durbin, Schatz, Murphy, and Manchin. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. R. ALEXANDER ACOSTA, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will come to order. First of all, good morning, Secretary Acosta. We are glad you are here and glad you are appearing before this committee today to dis- cuss your Department's fiscal year 2018 budget request. As you know, the budget is significantly challenged in terms of the cuts in your Department. I think the proposed cuts of $2.3 bil- lion are about one-fifth of the Department's operating level. Cer- tainly while I appreciate-and I think many of us appreciate-the Department's prioritizing limited resources and making decisions to realign programs, the fundamental question is really what you choose to cut and whether you can possibly look at that number and make an argument as to why that much of your previous budg- et should be cut this year. It is not the first time that these kinds of cuts have come in the Department. Last year, President Obama proposed about the same level of cuts, though he proposed that somehow that these pro- grams would lean heavily on new mandatory spending to bypass what were the actual budget caps in the law then. Of course, those budget caps are in the law still. Instead of making difficult decisions of prioritizing, the last ad- ministration just moved funding to new mandatory programs. I (1)

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