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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbbyl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RE- LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2020 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 9:59 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Jerry Moran (Chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Moran, Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Boozman, Capito, Kennedy, Shaheen, Leahy, Reed, Coons, Schatz, and Van Hollen. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JERRY MORAN Senator MORAN. Good morning, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to our first budget hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for this fiscal year 2021. Today, we have the honor of hearing from Secretary of Com- merce, Wilbur Ross, about the President's fiscal year 2021 funding priorities for the Department of Commerce. Welcome, Secretary Ross. Thank you for your appearance. We look forward to hearing from you this morning. As we know, the Department of Commerce executes a broad range of critical activities for our Nation, things that are important to every American, things that are important to us as Members of the Senate and issues that we care a lot about: Research and devel- opment, cutting-edge technology, predicting the weather, increasing trade and investment, recruiting businesses to our communities. The Decennial Census has been a significant component of the De- partment's business for the last several years. The President's fiscal year 2021 request for the Department is $8 billion, which is $6.7 billion below the fiscal year 2020 enacted level, which represents a 44 percent decrease in the Department's overall budget. While this is a large decrease on paper, much of it is due to the-in large part to the planned ramp-down of the fund- ing of the 2020 Census. That said, I am troubled by some of the proposed cuts to core programs that are overshadowed by the mag- nitude of the reduction to the Census Bureau. While this is a budget hearing about fiscal year 2021, we cannot overlook that in under a month, the Department, through the Bu- (1)

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