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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaukz0001 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 2019 THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:04 a.m. in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Alexander, Moran, Capito, Lankford, Kennedy, Rubio, Hyde-Smith, Murray, Durbin, Shaheen, Merkley, Schatz, Baldwin, Murphy, and Manchin. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF THE HON. ALEX AZAR, 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. I'm certainly pleased, Secretary Azar, to have you here this morning. I'm sure we're going to have a number of questions about your budget, and I'd preface that by saying that we understand that the final congressional action and Administration action on fiscal year 2018 occurred after you were asked to submit your budget. Still, there are things we need to talk about. The actual budget you submitted was $1.9 billion or 2.1 percent lower than the bill we just passed. And then in addition to that there's another $5.6 billion that shifts from the mandatory side to the discretionary side in your budget. I think when you add all this up, the budget is actually more like 16 percent lower than the budget we just voted on, and I'm sure we're going to talk about that and look at that. The budget request had to be submitted when it had to be sub- mitted. But throughout the bill, looking at some of our priorities- medical research, early childhood education, the preparedness pro- grams-are programs there will be questions on. I certainly agree that we ought to look everywhere we can for savings. We should look for programs that aren't working and make that decision that this is just an idea that wasn't necessarily a bad idea, but it didn't (1)

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