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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysafse0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2007 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 2:33 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Byron L. Dorgan (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Dorgan, Landrieu, Reed, Domenici, Bennett, Craig, and Allard. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE-CIVIL DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS-CIVIL STATEMENT OF HON. JOHN PAUL WOODLEY, JR., ASSISTANT SEC- RETARY OF THE ARMY (CIVIL WORKS) OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR BYRON L. DORGAN Senator DORGAN. I'm going to call the hearing to order. This is the hearing of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Develop- ment and we will take testimony today on the budget request and justifications for the Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engi- neers, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of the Inte- rior. My ranking member is Senator Domenici. He is, at the moment, in the Budget Committee. They are marking up the budget docu- ment. I don't know how long he will be there but it might take some while. So he has indicated it's fine to begin without him be- cause he is busy on budget votes. I'm joined by my colleague, Senator Craig, and we have two pan- els today. I am going to have both panels seated together and I ap- preciate that. We have a series of six votes today that start at 3:45 and because of that, I think because we have six votes that will be sequential, they will take us probably 1½ hours to 1 hour and 40 minutes to complete. I want to try to do a good hearing and a com- plete hearing but try to complete it as efficiently and effectively as we can before we start those votes. Because if we would have to recess and then come back 1 hour or 1 hour-plus later, that would not be helpful to anybody. I'd like to make a brief opening statement and then I'm going to call on Senator Craig. (1)