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Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
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