[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 56 (Tuesday, April 23, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Page S2901]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. REID:
  S. 788. A bill to suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and 
establish limits on war-related spending; read the first time.
  Mr. REID. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the 
bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                 S. 788

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF THE 2013 SEQUESTER.

       Notwithstanding the sequestration order issued by the 
     President pursuant to section 251A(7)(A) of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     901a(7)(A)), there shall be available for the Federal 
     Government for fiscal year 2013 the amount that would have 
     been made available for the Federal Government for fiscal 
     year 2013 but for sections 251 and 251A of the Balanced 
     Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 
     901 and 901a), sections 3001 and 3004 of the Consolidated and 
     Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, and any 
     sequestration order issued by the President.

     SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO OCO ADJUSTMENTS.

       Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (2) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(2) Eliminating a breach.--
       ``(A) In general.--Each nonexempt account within a category 
     shall be reduced by a dollar amount calculated by multiplying 
     the enacted level of sequesterable budgetary resources in 
     that account at that time by the uniform percentage necessary 
     to eliminate a breach within that category.
       ``(B) Overseas contingencies.--Any amount of budget 
     authority for overseas contingency operations and related 
     activities for fiscal years 2014 through 2016 in excess of 
     the levels set in subsection 251(b)(2)(E) shall be counted in 
     determining whether a breach has occurred in the security 
     category.''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(2)--
       (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting ``for fiscal 
     years 2017 through 2021,'' before ``the Congress''; and
       (B) by inserting at the end the following:
       ``(E) Overseas contingency operations/global war on 
     terrorism.--If, for fiscal years 2014 through 2016, 
     appropriations for discretionary accounts are enacted that 
     Congress designates for Overseas Contingency Operations/
     Global War on Terrorism in statute on an account by account 
     basis, the adjustment for the fiscal year shall be the total 
     of such appropriations for the fiscal year in discretionary 
     accounts designated as being for Overseas Contingency 
     Operations/Global War on Terrorism, but not to exceed--
       ``(i) for fiscal year 2014, $92,289,000,000 in additional 
     new budget authority;
       ``(ii) for fiscal year 2015, $37,283,000,000 in additional 
     new budget authority; and
       ``(iii) for fiscal year 2016, $37,283,000,000 in additional 
     new budget authority.''.

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