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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysavfi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:35 p.m. in Room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Jerry Moran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Moran, Murkowski, Collins, Boozman, Rubio, Schatz, Tester, and Udall. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STATEMENT OF HON. PETER J. POTOCHNEY, ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR ENERGY, INSTALLATIONS AND ENVIRONMENT OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JERRY MORAN Senator MORAN. Good afternoon. I am sorry for the nearly 5 minute late start due to votes on the Senate floor, but the sub- committee will come to order. Good afternoon. We meet today to discuss the President's fiscal year 2018 budget requests for Military Construction and Family Housing for the Department of Defense. The request represents a sharp departure from historically low MILCON requests of the past few years. The base budget request is $9.8 billion. It is a 27 percent increase over last year's enacted levels. In addition, the Overseas Contingency Operations, OCO re- quest, is $638 million. After years of our military taking on increasing levels of risk in infrastructure, the MILCON increase is a welcome change. This change does not take place in a vacuum, however. And the fiscal year 2018 budget request, when viewed in its totality, leaves this committee with some difficult decisions to make, on both defense discretionary and non-defense discretionary, both sides of that ledg- er. I don't think it is a stretch to say that this subcommittee will have to find savings and efficiencies and that not every project in the request will be funded when we are all said and done. To this end, I would welcome a dialogue with our witnesses today about large projects that could be funded incrementally. I understand OMB frowns on this practice, but with tight budgets, incremental funding is an effective tool that Congress has at its disposal.

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