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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaxgg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019 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, Lankford, Murray, Durbin, Schatz, Baldwin, and Murphy. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. R. ALEXANDER ACOSTA, 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 want to first of all thank you, Secretary Acosta, for appearing before the subcommittee today to discuss the department's budget that you submitted for 2020. The request is about in line with what you asked for last year and about 10 percent below what the com- mittee decided you needed to operate last year. I think the budget includes a handful of what I would consider to be forward leaning and positive proposals; the funding of apprenticeships, veterans workforce training, and employer compliance assistance. However, I think we are going to want to discuss some of the cuts that are proposed. Now if things are duplicative or ineffective, we hope you can help us make that case, because we do not want to have programs that are not doing what they should do. I know you have had to make difficult decisions and in fact, in previous budgets we have made difficult decisions, as this committee set sort of committee-wide dif- ferent priorities than we might have had in the past. However, as I said before, it is about the same proposal that you made a year ago and it is not where we wound up a year ago. I think we want to look at the $703 million cut in the Job Corps pro- gram and hear what you have to say about that. We want to focus

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