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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysarzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS, AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:48 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Lindsey Graham (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Graham, Leahy, Moran, Shaheen, Boozman, Durbin, Van Hollen, Coons, Daines, and Murphy. DEPARTMENT OF STATE STATEMENT OF THE HON. REX TILLERSON, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM Senator GRAHAM. The subcommittee hearing will come to order. Our hearing today is on the President's fiscal year 2018 budget re- quest and justification for the Department of State. I would like to welcome our witness, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. After open- ing statements from myself and the ranking member, we'll hear from the Secretary. We will accept your written testimony and anything you would like to tell us personally. This is going to be a little bit longer than normal. This is a very important issue for the country, and a passion of mine. Number one, Secretary Tillerson, I like the way you represent our country. You have a style that's pretty good for the world as it is today. You're a man of few words, but when you talk people listen. Your view of Qatar, I share. What you're doing in North Korea is beginning to penetrate. I just met with the Chinese. I think they get your message. And I think you're looking for ways for people to get to yes and always leaving backdoors to hard situa- tions. So in terms of your style and your attitude toward the job, I very much appreciate it. As to the budget, we need to increase defense spending, but once you do that, if you're not going to deal with entitlements, you have to go to non-defense discretionary spending to find the offsets, and this account gets pretty much devastated. I'm not blaming you, I'm not blaming anybody, I just want the country to know this budget request is in many ways radical and reckless when it comes to soft (1)

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