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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysavfn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019 TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:00 a.m. in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Richard Shelby (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Shelby, Collins, Murkowski, Blunt, Daines, Hoeven, Durbin, Murray, Reed, Tester, Schatz, and Baldwin. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAvY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF THE HON. RICHARD V. SPENCER, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY Senator SHELBY. The committee will come to order. Today I'm pleased to welcome Secretary Spencer, Admiral Richardson, and General Neller to the committee for an update on U.S. naval oper- ations and to review the fiscal year 2019 budget request for the Navy and Marine Corps. For fiscal year 2019, the Navy and Marine Corps are requesting $194.1 billion, which is an increase of about $4.5 billion over amounts appropriated in 2018, and it's consistent with the 2-year budget deal passed earlier this year. The funding level in this re- quest is still below what the Navy had projected for the upcoming year before the Budget Control was passed in 2011. Secretary Mattis has warned, and I'll quote, that failure to mod- ernize our military risks leaving us with a force that could domi- nate the last war, but be irrelevant to tomorrow's security. The increase is a necessary first step to reverse the harm to our military by 5 years of sequestration budgets. Today, there are over 100,000 sailors and Marines and more than 100 ships forward de- ployed, including three aircraft carriers and three amphibious as- sault ships. Our Nation has tasked our Navy and Marine Corps with assur- ing access to the world's oceans and far-away regions while defend- ing our interests in those areas, protecting U.S. citizens across the globe, and preventing the adversaries from using the world's oceans against us.

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