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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysasdr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 3:00 p.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. James Lankford (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Lankford, Kennedy, Murphy, and Van Hollen. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS STATEMENT OF HON. CARLA D. HAYDEN, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JAMES LANKFORD Senator LANKFORD. Good afternoon. I would like to welcome everyone to the first of our fiscal year 2018 budget hearings for the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee. Today, we have with us the Honorable Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, and the Honorable Stephen Ayers, Architect of the Capitol. I appreciate the willingness of both of you to appear and your preparation leading up to this. I would like to offer a special welcome to Dr. Hayden, as this is her first hearing before this subcommittee. Confirmed as the 14th Librarian of Congress, she is the first woman Librarian of Congress and first African-American Librarian of Congress. So glad that you are here; we will try to make this rough on you to make it memo- rable. She also has taken the helm of the Library at a critical period in its modernization, a lot of things that have been moving for a while and you have a big responsibility there in the coming years. Before we dive into the details, I would like to frame the fiscal situation we find ourselves in this year. We are yet again in a situation where flat budgets are more than likely and that may even be a best case scenario. We will do our part to make responsible decisions on how to allocate our limited funds, but also understand there are serious priorities that also have to be accomplished for the Nation. It is my hope that during this Congress, we can return to debat- ing and passing individual appropriation bills instead of governing from one Continuing Resolution to another. These stand alone bills better reflect the thoughtful work of our subcommittee, the valu- (1)

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