Homeland Security (113th Congress)
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David Price (NC)
Henry Cuellar (TX)
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Jurisdiction
Department of Homeland Security
Good afternoon, Mr. Secretary, and welcome. This is your first appearance before our subcommittee and your first opportunity to answer questions on the President's Fiscal Year 2015 budget request. I hope you will find our hearings to be both constructive and beneficial to your mission as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. The relationship between the Appropriations Committee, Cabinet Secretaries, and component heads is critical to ensuring agencies have the resources they need, while protecting taxpayer dollars. We want to be your partners in helping to make the Department successful across the broad range of its mission areas. This subcommittee is inclined to be candid and probing, but I hope our questions will be fair and reasonable. You have a difficult job, so even when there are disagreements, we still appreciate and respect your service to the country and look forward to working together.
I'd like to thank Chairman Rodgers, Judge Carter, and Ranking Member Price for their leadership. This subcommittee values our role in protecting our homeland as well as the bipartisan working relationship we foster to meet this goal.
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama's FY 2015 budget request:
"The FY2015 budget and appropriations process offers Congress its best opportunity in years to reject the politics of brinkmanship and crisis management, and instead fulfill our responsibility to invest in our future, create and protect jobs, and support services on which American families rely.
"I commend President Obama for a budget request that keeps faith with discretionary spending levels set in the Bipartisan Budget Act, yet recognizes that the federal government can and must do more to achieve significant economic goals in research, education, manufacturing, and skills training. We must reject a single-minded focus on austerity, which has unnecessarily slowed our economic recovery while starving our economic future.
2013 enacted level: $39.6 billion
2014 House bill: $39.0 billion
2014 Omnibus: $39.3 billion
· $10.6 billion for Customs and Border Protection, $220.4 million more than the 2013 enacted level.
· $5.27 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $158.1 million less than the 2013 enacted level but $122.7 million more than the 2013 post-sequester level.
· $4.93 billion for the Transportation Security Administration, which is $225.8 million less than the 2013 enacted level.
· $10.2 billion for the Coast Guard, including $227 million for overseas contingency operations; the total amount is $202 million less than the 2013 enacted level but $309.2 million more than the 2013 post-sequester level.