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Admiral Fagan, during your address on the state of the Coast Guard, you rightly recognized your Service's funding challenges.

While recovery efforts continue, it is important that we also maintain stable trade flows.

I look forward to hearing what the Coast Guard is doing to ensure its members... have the buildings, facilities, and IT support they need and deserve.

At the same time, we are here to examine what investments must be made into the Coast Guard's most valuable resource: its people.