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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysapjm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:40 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Thad Cochran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Cochran, Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Blunt, Daines, Moran, Leahy, Murray, Tester, Udall, and Schatz. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. DEBORAH LEE JAMES, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN Senator COCHRAN. Good morning. We welcome everyone to our hearing today, which will involve review of the administration's fis- cal year 2017 budget request for the United States Air Force. We are pleased to welcome the Secretary of the Air Force, Honor- able Deborah Lee James, and the Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh III. We thank you for your service as the Air Force continues its important role in protecting our national security in- terests. The President's fiscal year 2017 proposal requests over $120 bil- lion in base funding for the Air Force, which is roughly $1 billion more than the current funding level. The request also includes more than $12 billion to support ongoing overseas contingency op- erations. We look forward to hearing your testimony on these requests this morning. The Committee recognizes that the Air Force budget request is built on a long-term strategic framework, which balances the readi- ness of today while modernizing for the future. It is our role to find the correct balance among many competing priorities. My State, parochially speaking, is very proud of the Air Force's training and other activities in our State. We hope to support our Nation's air and space superiority as we have in the past, and we appreciate the service of all who are members of the Air Force team. (1)

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