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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysauzj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP STATE, FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND RELATED PROGRAMS APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 3:20 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Lindsey Graham (Chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Graham, Leahy, Durbin, Hyde-Smith, Shaheen, Lankford, Coons, Van Hollen, and Merkley. U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STATEMENT OF HON. MARK GREEN, ADMINISTRATOR OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM Senator GRAHAM. The subcommittee will come to order. Sorry we were late. We were at the lunch at the State Department for Presi- dent Macron and we are Republicans, we should know how to run things. We are an hour and a half late. So we got to up our game. Senator Leahy is on the way. He said go ahead and start. Thank you for coming, Mark. We have a new Senator, Senator Hyde-Smith, on the sub- committee. I want to welcome her. The 2019 budget proposal from the administration will not make it. We are going to kill it and replace it with something that makes more sense. If you send a rescission package over here from the House that guts the State Department, we are going to kill that, too. So I just want everybody who knows about this account and cares about this account, that Senator Leahy and my colleagues on the sub- committee, Republican, Democrat, are going to protect this account. We will make it better. We will make it more efficient. We are always in the market for trying to make things better. But it's 1 percent of our overall spending, foreign assistance in gen- eral. General Mattis said it better than anybody: if you cut the State Department's operational budget you need to buy me more ammo. He said that when he was head of CENTCOM. So to the administration, we want to work with you where we can, but I reject the whole attitude that is being displayed about developmental assistance. Being a military pretty hawkish guy, (1)

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