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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqsx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2013 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2012 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Inouye, Leahy, Harkin, Durbin, Feinstein, Mi- kulski, Kohl, Murray, Reed, Cochran, Hutchison, Collins, Mur- kowski, Graham, and Coats. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE STATEMENT OF HON. LEON E. PANETTA, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE ACCOMPANIED BY HON. ROBERT F. HALE, UNDER SECRETARY OF DE- FENSE, COMPTROLLER OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN DANIEL K. INOUYE Chairman INOUYE. This morning, I would like to welcome the Honorable Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense, and General Martin E. Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to tes- tify on the administration's budget request for fiscal year 2013. Gentlemen, you assumed these positions during a very chal- lenging moment in history. Our economy, our country is facing a budget deficit, and you have been tasked with significantly reduc- ing the Department of Defense's (DOD) budget plans in an effort to cut down spending. These budget reductions come at an occasion when we are fight- ing a war in Afghanistan and the counterterrorism threat world- wide. At the same time, the world is changing rapidly, and DOD is being called upon to respond to threats ranging from cyberspace, weapons proliferation, rising powers, and instability in key regions, such as we have witnessed with the Arab Spring. DOD's fiscal year 2013 budget request totals $604.5 billion that this subcommittee oversees. This is a decrease of $28.8 billion over last year's enacted budget, mainly due to the drawdown of oper- ations in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, over the next decade, the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA) sets limits for DOD, which is $487 billion less than what the Department had planned to spend.

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