BALANCED BUDGET AND EMERGENCY DEFICIT CONTROL ACT

Amendments

Budget: replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), S1036 [28FE]

Articles and editorials

Chief Justice Roberts—Sequester Cuts Hitting Federal Judiciary ‘‘Hard’’, S5520 [8JY]

Citing Cuts, Lawyers Seek Relief in Terrorism Case, S2646 [15AP]

Public Defenders Offices Shouldn’t Suffer Under Sequestration, S2916 [24AP]

Sequestration Budget Cuts Would Be Across-the-Board in Houston, County, H5784 [20SE]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: cancel sequester for security-related functions through offsets by reducing Medicare payments, agricultural subsidies, and Federal retirement, and applying the chained consumer price index (see H.R. 3639), H7445 [3DE]

——— cancel the sequester for the revised security category and provide for a revised spending plan for the Dept. of Defense (see H.R. 804), H626 [25FE]

——— eliminate automatic increases for inflation from CBO baseline projections for discretionary appropriations and require budget estimates to be compared with the prior year’s level (see S. 185), S400 [30JA]

——— eliminate Dept. of Defense sequestration for fiscal years 2013 and 2014 and sequester such eliminated sums over a period of fiscal years 2015 through 2021 (see H.R. 857), H701 [27FE]

——— eliminate sequestration (see H.R. 900), H814 [28FE]

——— exempt certain payments to States from sequestration (see S. 1676), S7927 [7NO]

——— exempt Dept. of HUD public and Indian housing programs from sequestration (see H.R. 2695), H4522 [16JY]

——— exempt NIH from current fiscal year sequestration and reduce the sequestration by the amount of the exemption (see H.R. 729), H546 [14FE]

——— exempt the Crime Victims Fund from sequestration (see H.R. 2238), H3094 [4JN]

——— exempt the Dept. of Defense from reduction under any order issued to carry out a sequestration (see H.R. 773), H595 [15FE]

——— increase transparency in Federal budgeting (see H.R. 1872), H2532 [8MY]

——— modify discretionary spending limits to take into account savings resulting from the reduction in the number of Federal employees and freeze pay for Members of Congress when there is a Federal deficit (see S. 263), S520 [7FE] (see H.R. 593), H430 [8FE]

——— provide the President with the authority to exempt a portion of civilian Dept. of Defense personnel accounts covering personnel who have served in the Armed Forces from sequestration (see H.R. 2614), H4212 [8JY]

——— provide the President with the authority to exempt civilian Dept. of Defense personnel accounts from sequestration (see H.R. 2613), H4212 [8JY]

——— reform the budget baseline to remove automatic increases in discretionary accounts and to require a comparison to the previous year’s spending levels (see H.R. 1871), H2532 [8MY]

——— repeal and replace current fiscal year sequestration (see H.R. 699), H545 [14FE]

——— repeal sequestration, reduce discretionary spending limits, and suspend statutory debt ceiling limit (see H.R. 849), H700 [27FE]

——— replace current fiscal year sequestration (see S. 18), S943 [27FE]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (see S. 16), S943 [27FE] (see S. 799), S2960 [24AP]

——— restore Indian Health Service funding reduced under any order issued to carry out a sequestration (see H.R. 1371), H1824 [21MR]

——— restore sequestered budgetary resources (see H.R. 2060), H2803 [20MY]

——— suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending (see S. 788), S2896 [23AP]

Dept. of Defense: provide that military technicians (dual status) shall be included in military personnel accounts for purposes of any issued orders (see S. 1438), S6207 [1AU] (see H.R. 1014), H1319 [6MR]

——— reduce budget sequestration cuts for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 but implement such cuts over the duration of sequestration (see S. 1841), S8913 [17DE]

Employment: adjust discretionary spending limits for appropriations for emergency job creation (see H.R. 545), H411 [6FE]

FAA: eliminate application of budget sequestration to funds associated with the operation of air traffic control towers (see H.R. 1766), H2390 [26AP]

FDA: exempt certain user fees from budget sequestration (see S. 1413), S6126 [31JY] (see H.R. 2725), H4724 [18JY]

Federal agencies and departments: allow interagency transfers of funds to provide more flexibility for the agency to comply with a sequestration order (see S. 465), S1127 [5MR] (see S. 1017), S3761 [22MY] (see H.R. 816), H627 [25FE]

——— exempt essential employees from furloughs required to achieve funding reductions due to sequester and allow funding flexibility to maintain essential services (see S. 724), S2649 [15AP]

Medicare: prevent budget sequestration from impacting payment for physician-administered drugs (see H.R. 1416), H1856 [9AP]

Members of Congress: require salaries be sequestered during any sequester under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (see S. 436), S1088 [4MR] (see H.R. 1478), H1909 [10AP]

OMB: report to Congress how amounts could be transferred within Federal agencies and departments to avoid furloughs or reductions in force (see H.R. 950), H981 [5MR]

Cloture motions

Budget: replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), motion to proceed, S927 [27FE], S991 [28FE]

E-mails 

Guidance from OPM to Federal agencies for shutdown contingency planning, S2883 [23AP]

Letters

Impact of budget sequestration on science funding agencies: University of Hawaii at Ma̅noa professor, S8963 [18DE]

Impact of budget sequestration on the judicial system: Julia S. Gibbons and Thomas F. Hogan, Judicial Conference of the U.S., S3601 [20MY]

——— Mary Massaron Ross, Defense Research Institute, Inc., S3601 [20MY]

——— Thomas F. Hogan, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, S2452 [8AP]

OMB Sequestration Preview Report: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, OMB, H4211 [8JY]

Memorandums

Government Operations in the Event of a Lapse in Appropriations: Alice M. Rivlin, OMB (1995), S2883 [23AP]

——— Walter Dellinger, Dept. of Justice (1995), S2883 [23AP]

Motions

Budget: replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), S927 [27FE]

Remarks in House

Border Patrol: impact of budget sequestration in southern Arizona, H1417 [14MR]

Budget: eliminate sequestration, H5275, H5311 [1AU], H5376 [2AU], H7403 [3DE]

——— eliminate sequestration (H.R. 900), H958 [5MR], H991 [6MR], H1863, H1869 [10AP], H2312 [25AP], H2370, H2371, H2378, H2379 [26AP], H2449 [7MY], H2491 [8MY], H2796 [20MY], H2813 [21MY], H2841, H2846 [22MY], H3682 [17JN], H4984 [24JY], H5281, H5326, H5329 [1AU], H5784 [20SE], E250 [6MR], E571 [26AP], E884 [17JN], E943 [20JN], E989 [28JN], E1361 [23SE]

——— eliminate sequestration (H.R. 900), unanimous-consent request, H2453 [7MY]

——— exempt NIH from current fiscal year sequestration and reduce the sequestration by the amount of the exemption (H.R. 729), E157 [14FE]

——— exempt the Crime Victims Fund from sequestration (H.R. 2238), H3694 [18JN]

——— impact of budget sequestration on health care, H1562 [18MR]

——— repeal and replace current fiscal year sequestration, H686, H690 [27FE], H1367, H1370 [13MR], H1587 [19MR], H2232 [23AP], H2442, H2448 [7MY], H2494 [8MY], H2555 [9MY], H3027 [4JN], H3228 [6JN], H5690 [19SE], H5780, H5781, H5782, H5783, H5785 [20SE], H5981 [28SE], H6759 [23OC]

——— repeal and replace current fiscal year sequestration (H.R. 699), H602, H608 [25FE], H632, H638, H639, H645, H646, H650, H651 [26FE], H670, H671, H672, H673, H674, H676, H685, H686, H687 [27FE], H805, H806 [28FE], H944 [4MR], H955, H956, H958, H959–H964 [5MR], H987, H989, H993, H994 [6MR], H1925 [11AP], H2309 [25AP], H3291 [12JN], H4085 [27JN], H4981 [24JY], H5927, H5936, H5999 [28SE], E173 [25FE], E199 [27FE], E226 [28FE]

——— replace the sequester established by the Budget Control Act by eliminating certain taxpayer subsidies, H8078 [12DE]

——— restore sequestered budgetary resources (H.R. 2060), H4222 [9JY]

Medicare: prevent budget sequestration from impacting payment for physician-administered drugs (H.R. 1416), H1867 [10AP]

Members of Congress: require salaries be sequestered during any sequester under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, H1361 [13MR]

——— require salaries be sequestered during any sequester under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (H.R. 1478), E413 [10AP]

NIH: impact of budget sequestration on research, H1579 [19MR], H1802 [21MR]

Remarks in Senate

Budget: clarify budget scoring rule relating to certain changes in mandatory program spending, S2302 [22MR]

——— eliminate sequestration, S7977 [13NO], S8041 [14NO]

——— repeal and replace current fiscal year sequestration, S6987, S6992 [27SE], S7030 [30SE]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), motion to proceed, S905, S927 [27FE], S959–S962, S971–S993, S1006 [28FE]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), unanimous-consent agreement, S927 [27FE]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 16), unanimous-consent request, S2888 [23AP]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 799), S2931, S2979 [24AP], S2982 [25AP]

——— replace sequester and give the President the flexibility to make spending cuts (S. 799), unanimous-consent request, S2932 [24AP]

——— suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending (S. 788), S2886, S2904 [23AP], S2909, S2911, S2912, S2917 [24AP]

——— suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on war-related spending (S. 788), unanimous-consent request, S2887 [23AP], S2933 [24AP]

Corps of Engineers: impact of budget sequestration, S888 [27FE], S1975 [20MR]

Courts: impact of budget sequestration on the judicial system, S1078 [4MR], S2449 [8AP], S2646 [15AP], S2915 [24AP], S3600 [20MY], S5520 [8JY], S6698 [24SE]

Dept. of Agriculture: Food Safety Inspection Service funding to exempt essential employees from furloughs, S1986 [20MR]

Dept. of Energy: impact of budget sequestration on the National Nuclear Security Administration, S888 [27FE]

Federal agencies and departments: allow interagency transfers of funds to provide more flexibility for the agency to comply with a sequestration order, S1093 [4MR], S1102 [5MR], S1781 [13MR], S7235 [5OC], S7290 [8OC], S7316, S7342 [9OC]

——— allow interagency transfers of funds to provide more flexibility for the agency to comply with a sequestration order (S. 465), S1850 [14MR], S3710, S3711 [22MY]

——— exempt essential employees from furloughs required to achieve funding reductions due to sequester and allow funding flexibility to maintain essential services, S1874 [18MR]

——— exempt essential employees from furloughs required to achieve funding reductions due to sequester and allow funding flexibility to maintain essential services (S. 724), S2882–S2884 [23AP], S2984 [25AP]

Health: impact of budget sequestration on health care, S1673 [12MR]

Members of Congress: require salaries be sequestered during any sequester under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (S. 436), S1089 [4MR]

NIH: impact of budget sequestration on research, S1673, S1701 [12MR], S4728 [20JN]

Woodward, Bob: characterization of President Obama remarks relative to sequestration substitute, S983 [28FE]

Reports filed

Baseline Reform Act: Committee on the Budget (House) (H.R. 1871) (H. Rept. 113–129), H4036 [25JN]

Summaries

Judiciary Fiscal Year 2013 Emergency Supplemental Request: Judicial Conference of the U.S., S3601 [20MY]

Tables

Accounts with technical corrections in OMB Sequestration Preview Report, H4211 [8JY]

Texts of

S. 788, suspend the fiscal year 2013 budget sequester and establish limits on war-related spending, S2901 [23AP]