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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysasdo0001 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 THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:05 a.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Shelby, Alexander, Moran, Capito, Lankford, Kennedy, Murray, Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, Baldwin, Manchin, and Leahy. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. THOMAS PRICE, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. Good morning. Thank you, Secretary Price, for appearing before the subcommittee today to discuss the Depart- ment of Health and Human Services' fiscal year 2018 budget re- quest. We look forward to hearing your testimony. This year's budget request for the Labor/HHS Subcommittee is reduced by $24 billion. The Department of Health and Human Services would take a $15.1 billion reduction, or a reduction of about one-fifth of the Department's current funding level. This cer- tainly would put a great deal of new restraint on what you try to do there. Certainly, I agree there are a lot of places in the Department's budget we should look to for savings. You bring a new viewpoint and frankly, a helpful background to the HHS budget. I hope we can work together to identify programs that are ineffective and no longer needed and put that funding to better use elsewhere. However, as the budget request stands today, I'm concerned about a path forward if we followed the request that the adminis- tration has made. The proposal cuts the National Institutes of Health by $7.5 billion, eliminates funding for LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program), and reduces funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by $1.2 billion. Cer- tainly looking at the history of this subcommittee and our commit- (1)

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