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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqwo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2009 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:29 a.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Inouye, Cochran, and Bond. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY STATEMENT OF HON. RAYMOND MABUS, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR DANIEL K. INOUYE Chairman INOUYE. This morning the subcommittee meets to re- ceive testimony on the fiscal year 2010 budget request from the Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Raymond Mabus; the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Gary Roughead; and the Com- mandant of the Marine Corps, General James Conway. I'd like to welcome each of you and extend special greetings to the Secretary. This is your first appearance before us. For fiscal year 2010, the President has requested $156.4 billion for the Navy and the Marine Corps, plus an additional $15.3 billion in supplemental wartime costs. Although the Secretary of Defense has proposed a number of terminations and delays in major weap- ons systems, relatively few of these decisions would have an imme- diate impact on the Navy or Marine Corps. In fact, the $9 billion in growth in the Navy budget is 50 percent greater than the growth in the Army and the Air Force combined. The budget supports many Department of Navy priorities, in- cluding truncating the DDG 1000 in favor of additional DDG 51 de- stroyers, continuing production and test of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), accelerating the production of Virginia class submarines next year, and completing the growth of the Marine Corps to 202,100 personnel. Despite the growth in the budget, there is bound to be con- troversy over other investment decisions. Funds for shipbuilding are not sufficient to achieve our 313 ship Navy, our carrier fleet would be reduced to 10 by year 2040, and it will be very difficult (1)