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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysapjt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:39 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Thad Cochran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Cochran, Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Graham, Blunt, Daines, Moran, Durbin, Reed, Tester, and Udall. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE STATEMENT OF HON. ASHTON B. CARTER, SECRETARY ACCOMPANIED BY MIKE MCCORD, UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN Senator COCHRAN. The Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations of the United States Senate will please come to order. We want to welcome the Honorable Ashton B. Carter, Secretary of Defense, and General Joseph F. Dunford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This is our first review of the 2017 defense budget request with these witnesses. The subcommittee understands the challenges that we face in developing the content and setting the limits of spending for the Department of Defense. We look forward to our distinguished panel of witnesses and thank them for their distin- guished service to the U.S. military and our country. I will first recognize General Joseph Dunford in his first appear- ance before the Defense Subcommittee and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We are grateful for your leadership and ap- preciate your appearance before our committee. We also are pleased to have the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, who is a person we've gotten to know pretty well over time in his distinguished service. [The statement follows:] PREPARED STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN Good morning, the Subcommittee on Defense Appropriations of the United States Senate will please come to order. We want to welcome the Honorable Ashton B. Carter, Secretary of Defense, and General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (1)

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