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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysawuu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2019 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, Moran, Hoeven, Boozman, Durbin, Leahy, Tester, Udall, Schatz, and Bald- win. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. DR. HEATHER WILSON, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY Senator SHELBY. The committee will come to order. This morning I am pleased to welcome Secretary Wilson and General Goldfein to review the Air Force budget request for 2020. Secretary Wilson congratulations on being named the sole finalist, in other words, the next President of the University of Texas, El Paso. We appre- ciate your participation here today. We also appreciate your service as a congressman, as Rhode Scholar, everything that goes with it. And you have had the complete package and you are going to con- tinue doing things, I know, for the country. We will hear from you again in other capacities. The Air Force budget request for 2020 is $165.6 billion, an in- crease of $9.8 billion over the amounts enacted in 2019. And while we are here today to focus on the budget request, we are also inter- ested in hearing about how the Air Force is executing the 2019 funds, which we thought were pretty robust, but needed. The National Defense Strategy Commission recently stated that the Air Force will be at the forefront of the next conflict regardless of where it occurs or which adversary it features. That is a long time. I think they are correct in that assessment. The country ex- pects that the Air Force will invest in a lethal force that will be able to confront our adversaries of the future, and it cannot fail to maintain a ready force today. This committee will scrutinize the budget request that we received to ensure that it supports the more than 20,000 airman deployed around the globe in 180 loca- (1)

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