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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqqb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:34 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Inouye, Mikulski, Reed, Cochran, Alexander, Collins, and Murkowski. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STATEMENT OF WILLIAM J. LYNN III, DEPUTY SECRETARY OF DE- FENSE ACCOMPANIED BY ROBERT F. HALE, UNDER SECRETARY OF DE- FENSE, COMPTROLLER OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN DANIEL K. INOUYE Chairman INOUYE. Good morning. This morning marks our first Defense Appropriations Committee hearing of the 112th Congress. And I would like to remind my colleagues and the new members of the subcommittee that our first defense hearing of the year is typically reserved for the rollout of the coming year's budget. However, this morning, we will hear from Deputy Secretary of Defense Mr. William Lynn and the Under Secretary of Defense, the Comptroller, Mr. Robert Hale regarding the impact of a long-term continuing resolution on the Department of Defense. Today marks the first 5 months into the fiscal year 2011 and 3 days before the current continuing resolution expires. The path forward on completing the appropriations bills for fiscal year 2011 is still challenging. Unless cooler heads prevail and both houses of Congress begin to make progress on passing this year's budget, there remains the possibility that the whole Government could be funded through a full-year continuing resolution. This hearing is intended to examine the consequences of putting the de- fense budget on autopilot for the next 7 months. We have military men and women fighting a war in Afghanistan, training forces in Iraq so that we can safely draw down our forces there, and operating around the globe to protect our national secu- rity. Yet under the current funding situation, each of the military services has already been adversely impacted by the current con- tinuing resolution.

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