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DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND
RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2014
THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2013
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
The subcommittee met at 11:07 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen
Senate Office Building, Hon. Tom Harkin (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Harkin and Moran.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
STATEMENT OF HON. SETH D. HARRIS, ACTING SECRETARY AND DEP-
UTY SECRETARY
OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR TOM HARKIN
Senator HARKIN. The Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies of the Appro-
priations Committee will come to order.
Apologize for being late. We had a couple of-two or three-votes
on the Senate floor. I thank your indulgence.
Again, I want to welcome Mr. Seth Harris back to the sub-
committee. Two things I want to thank you for, Secretary Harris,
is, one, for participating in that summit we had in Wilmington,
Delaware, last week. I just thought your remarks were just out-
standing.
I also want to thank you again publicly for your stewardship of
the Department of Labor during this period of time.
Thank you for your long work with the Department of Labor,
both in this administration and back in the 1990s, when I was-
well, let's see, I guess during most of that-well, some of that time
I was chair of this subcommittee. Most of the time, I was ranking
member, but I thank you for your service in both of those adminis-
trations.
Our subject today is just the President's fiscal year 2014 budget
request for the Department of Labor, and it comes at a critical
time.
While the economy is moving, I think, in the right direction, too
many people are unemployed or underemployed, and the Depart-
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