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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
The subcommittee met at 11 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Sen-
ate Office Building, Hon. Richard J. Durbin (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Durbin, Feinstein, Mikulski, Murray, Reed,
Cochran, Shelby, Collins, Coats, and Blunt.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAvY
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
STATEMENT OF HON. RAY MABUS, SECRETARY
OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRWOMAN BARBARA A. MIKULSKI
Chairwoman MIKULSKI [presiding]. Good morning, everybody.
The Subcommittee on Defense will come to order. The sub-
committee is chaired by Senator Dick Durbin, who is on the floor
giving his speech about the vote that we will shortly have at 9. So
in the interest of time and as a respect to our distinguished panel-
ists here, the Secretary of the Navy, the head of the Marine Corps,
and the head of the Navy, we are going to begin. And I would like
to say a few opening words, and then turn to Senator Cochran. And
I would also note Senator Cochran and Senator Shelby are here as
well.
So we thought we could do our part, and by that time Senator
Durbin should be here, and we could then proceed. We know it is
a busy morning, and there will be, I think, two or three votes be-
ginning at noon.
The subcommittee wishes to welcome the Secretary of the Navy,
Mr. Ray Mabus, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the Chief of Naval
Operations, and General Amos, the Commandant of the Marine
Corps. And we will be taking the testimony on the fiscal 2014 re-
quest for the Department of Navy at today's hearing.
In behalf, I think, of not only myself, but all of us on both sides
of the aisle, we would like to welcome you here today. And in
thanking you for your service, we really want to thank the men
and women who serve under you. We really appreciate what they
do every day in every way to keep America strong and to keep
America safe. And they do it with extraordinary competence, dedi-
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