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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysabhy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2015 TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:33 p.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Jeanne Shaheen (chairwoman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Shaheen, Hoeven, and Boozman. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL STATEMENT OF HON. STEPHEN T. AYERS, ARCHITECT OF THE CAP- ITOL OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR JEANNE SHAHEEN Senator SHAHEEN. Good afternoon. I am going to call this hear- ing to order. Senator Hoeven is on his way, but we are going to go ahead and begin. This is the third hearing of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee for fiscal year 2015. This is our last hearing on the 2015 budgets of the legislative branch agencies, and then we will begin writing our legislation. I want to thank all of those who will be testifying today, as well as the members of your agencies, for your work in preparing your budget submissions, and also for the good work that you do for the people of this country every day. We continue to operate with serious resource constraints, despite some of the efforts in 2014 to roll back the cuts from sequestration. Therefore, this subcommittee is going to have some tough decisions ahead of us as we look at the budgets of the agencies that will be testifying today. I want to begin by welcoming our first panel with Stephen Ayers, who is the Architect of the Capitol. The Architect of the Capitol, or AOC, maintains and operates the buildings and grounds of the Capitol complex. I like the statistics here, Mr. Ayers, that you cover 17.4 million square feet of buildings and 460 acres of land, encompassing every- thing from the Capitol, the House and Senate Office Buildings, to the Visitors Center, the Botanic Gardens, and a number of off-cam- pus facilities. I am especially pleased today, and I look forward to talking to you about your efforts to focus on energy efficiency, because you (1)

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