A bill to suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending.
Latest action · Apr 24, 2013 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64.
Progress
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- IntroducedApr 23, 2013
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Makes available for the federal government for FY2013 the amount that would have been made available for the fiscal year if the following actions had not occurred:
- sequestration of discretionary spending limits and automatic sequestrations to enforce a specified budget goal under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act);
- rescission of the applicable percentage of budget authority provided (or obligation limit imposed) for FY2013 for any discretionary account in divisions A through E of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013; and
- any presidential sequestration order.
Amends the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act with respect to mandatory sequestration, within 15 calendar days after Congress adjourns to end a session, in order to eliminate a budget-year breach, if any, within any category. Requires any amount of budget authority for overseas contingency operations and related activities for FY2014-FY2016 in excess of the levels specified in the Act to be counted in determining whether a breach of the budget has occurred in the security category.
Requires the adjustments to discretionary spending limits for appropriations for discretionary accounts enacted for FY2017-FY2021 that Congress designates for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism (OCO/GWOT) to be the total of such appropriations in discretionary accounts designated for OCO/GWOT. Specifies limits, however, for any OCO/GWOT adjustments in additional new budget authority for such fiscal years.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 24, 2013Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 64.
- Apr 23, 2013Introduced in Senate
- Apr 23, 2013Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2901)
In the Congressional Record 2
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2909, S2911, S2912, S2917, S2933 | Harry Reid D-NV, Mitch McConnell R-KY, Patrick J. Toomey R-PA, Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Apr 24, 2013 |
| Senate | Debate and remarks S2886, S2887, S2904Text printed S2901 | Charles E. Schumer D-NY, Harry Reid D-NV (text), Richard J. Durbin D-IL, Tom Coburn R-OK | Apr 23, 2013 |
Research
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CRS reports 1
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Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| RL34424 | The Budget Control Act and Trends in Discretionary Spending Archived | Report | Nov 26, 2014 |
Titles 1
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Apr 24, 2013Placed on Calendar Senate
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