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Good morning, this hearing will come to order. I would ask that my written Opening Statement be entered into the record. Without objection. I want to welcome secretary kelly for a hearing on the Homeland Security fiscal year 2018 budget. This is the third time secretary kelly has been before this committee, the second time as secretary. We appreciate your service to this country, your many years of it. I just want to make a couple of comments. By vocation, i am an accountant so i have gone through budget meetings many, many times. I want to talk about the history of the budget of the department of Homeland Security. When you take a look at total Budget Authority, when the department was first stood up, the first fiscal year was 2004. Wasdepartments budget ....
Morning, this hearing will come to order. I will ask my written Opening Statement be entered in the record. Without objection. I want to welcome secretary kelly. This is a hearing on the department of Homeland Securitys fiscal year 2018 budget. This is the third time secretary kelly has appeared before this committee. The second time as secretary of the department and, again, we welcome you and appreciate your service to this country, many, many years of it. In lieu of my written Opening Statement, i just want to make a couple comments. Im by vocation, im an accountant. So ive gone through budget meetings many, many times. First, i want to just talk about the history of the budget of the department of Homeland Security. Were not quite ready for the chart ....