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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysbaor0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, VETERANS AF- FAIRS, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:46 p.m. in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. John Boozman (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Boozman, Murkowski, Hoeven, Collins, Capito, Daines, Schatz, Tester, Udall, and Baldwin. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT L. WILKIE, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JOHN BOOZMAN Senator BOOZMAN. Good afternoon and thank you for coming today to discuss the Department of Veterans Affairs fiscal year 2020 and 2021 Budget Requests. I'd like to begin by recognizing today's panel. The Honorable Rob- ert Wilkie, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He's accompanied by his leadership team in the VA's Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization, including the Honorable Dr. Paul Lawrence, the Under Secretary for Benefits of the Veterans Benefits Administra- tion, the Honorable Randy Reeves, the Under Secretary for Memo- rial Affairs, the Honorable Jon Rychalski, the Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial Officer, Dr. Richard Stone, Executive in Charge of the Veterans Health Administration. We apologize for running late. You know, we schedule these things in advance and all of a sudden we have votes and that's the only thing that we've got to do around here is vote. So the budget requests $220 billion in fiscal year 2020 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, including medical care collections. This includes $93 billion in discretionary funds, 6.5 billion or seven and a half percent increase over fiscal year 2019. The budget also requests a total of $221 billion in advanced ap- propriations for 2021. Although the large fiscal year 2020 increase highlights the im- portance of programs for veterans, it also reflects creation of the Veterans Community Care Program which consolidated multiple community care programs through the MISSION Act. The estimate of the 2020 cost of the MISSION Act-related programs is $8.9 bil- lion, an amount that in past years would have been funded through (1)

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