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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysagor0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 2015 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:32 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Thad Cochran (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Cochran, Shelby, Collins, Blunt, Reed, and Schatz. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAvY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. RAY MABUS, SECRETARY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR THAD COCHRAN Senator COCHRAN. The committee will please come to order. We are delighted to be able to welcome a distinguished panel of wit- nesses to discuss the fiscal year 2016 budget submission of the Navy and Marine Corps. Our hearing will review the budget requests that have been sub- mitted to the Congress. And we are also very pleased to personally welcome each of you distinguished leaders in our military forces here today: the Honorable Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy; Ad- miral Jonathan Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations; and General Joseph Dunford, Commandant of the Marine Corps. For fiscal year 2016, the President's budget is requesting $161 billion in base funding to support the Navy and Marine Corps. The request is $11 billion higher than the current level of funding. The request also includes $7 billion to support ongoing overseas contingency operations. These funds support the forward deploy- ment of sailors and marines throughout the world and the impor- tant work done every day to ensure our Nation's security. This committee recognizes the uncertainty of the current fiscal environment on the Navy and Marine Corps. If the Department of Defense has to live with the budget caps in fiscal year 2016, the Navy has already indicated that it will not be able to support the current defense strategy. We appreciate the complexity of building the fiscal year 2016 budget and look forward to any comments this distinguished panel of witnesses will make in regard to the health and well-being of our (1)