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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2019
U.S. SENATE,
SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS,
Washington, DC.
The subcommittee met at 11:41 a.m. in room S-128, The Capitol,
Hon. Richard Shelby (chairman) presiding.
Present: Senators Shelby, Collins, Graham, Blunt, Moran,
Hoeven, Boozman, Durbin, Leahy, Feinstein, Murray, Reed, Udall,
Schatz, and Baldwin.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
STATEMENT OF PATRICK M. SHANAHAN, ACTING SECRETARY
ACCOMPANIED BY DAVID NORQUIST, UNDER SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE (COMPTROLLER) AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY
Senator SHELBY. The committee will come to order.
Today we have as panelists, the Honorable Patrick Shanahan,
Acting Secretary of Defense, and General Joseph Dunford Jr., U.S.
Marine Corps, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
I will forego an opening statement. I know we have already held
you up some today, and I will recognize Senator Durbin.
[The statement follows:]
PREPARED STATEMENT OF SENATOR RICHARD C. SHELBY
The Subcommittee will come to order.
I am pleased to welcome to the Committee, Acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick
Shanahan and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford,
to review the budget request for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2020.
This Committee has already hosted hearings with the individual military services,
and we have heard much about the implementation of the National Defense Strat-
egy.
It has been repeatedly emphasized that the Department is implementing a delib-
erate plan to address the changing, and in some ways new, threats and challenges
that are posed to our national security, including from near peer adversaries.
However, I remain convinced that we must maintain a rate of progress that will
protect the comparative military advantages that have underpinned our global mili-
tary strategy for years.
The world continues to be a complex and dangerous place, as we are reminded
when we read the news; whether it is the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our South-
west border, short range missile launches from North Korea, or the movement of
the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group towards the U.S. Central Command
region in response to recent Iranian actions.
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