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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbaza0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2019 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:02 a.m. in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Shelly Moore Capito (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Capito, Murkowski, Hoeven, Hyde-Smith, Lankford, Tester, Shaheen, Leahy, and Baldwin. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY STATEMENT OF KEVIN MCALEENAN, ACTING SECRETARY ACCOMPANIED BY CHIP FULGHUM, ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR MANAGEMENT OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR SHELLY MOORE CAPITO Senator CAPITO. I would like to welcome everyone, and I call this hearing of the subcommittee on Homeland Security to order. This is the subcommittee's third hearing of the fiscal year 2020 budget cycle and we are pleased to be joined by the new Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Kevin McAleenan. Give it to me again? Mr. MCALEENAN. McAleenan. Senator CAPITO. McAleenan. Mr. McAleenan has been in this job as an acting capacity for just over three weeks. Prior to taking over this challenging task Mr. McAleenan was doing an outstanding job, and we have known each other and spoken with each other many times, serving as a head of one of Department of Homeland Secu- rity's most critical components, the United States Custom and Bor- der Protection. Given the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our Southwest border, I am sure Mr. McAleenan has done his best over the last three weeks to become an expert on the complex missions and budgets of the other 13 components that make up the Department of Home- land Security. While quickly getting up to speed on all of that is going to be a nearly impossible task, I am certain Mr. McAleenan has done it as well as anybody could. We are pleased that he is accompanied by the Department's Act- ing Undersecretary for Management Chip Fulghum, whose service to the department over the past 7 years and to the Nation through a military and civilian career spanning 35 years, has been out- standing. Mr. Fulghum will soon be retiring from government and (1)

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