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Calendar No. 64 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 788 

To suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish limits on warrelated spending. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 23, 2013 

Mr. REID introduced the following bill; which was read the first time 

APRIL 24, 2013 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 

A BILL 

To suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and establish 

limits on war-related spending. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SUSPENSION OF THE 2013 SEQUESTER. 

4 Notwithstanding the sequestration order issued by 

5 the President pursuant to section 251A(7)(A) of the Bal6 anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 

7 (2 U.S.C. 901a(7)(A)), there shall be available for the 

8 Federal Government for fiscal year 2013 the amount that 


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1 would have been made available for the Federal Govern2 ment for fiscal year 2013 but for sections 251 and 251A 

3 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 

4 Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901 and 901a), sections 3001 and 

5 3004 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appro6 priations Act, 2013, and any sequestration order issued 

7 by the President. 

8 SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO OCO ADJUSTMENTS. 

9 Section 251 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 

10 Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901) is amended— 

11 (1) in subsection (a), by striking paragraph (2) 

12 and inserting the following: 

13 ‘‘(2) ELIMINATING A BREACH.— 

14 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each nonexempt ac15 count within a category shall be reduced by a 

16 dollar amount calculated by multiplying the en17 acted level of sequesterable budgetary resources 

18 in that account at that time by the uniform 

19 percentage necessary to eliminate a breach 

20 within that category. 

21 ‘‘(B) OVERSEAS CONTINGENCIES.—Any 

22 amount of budget authority for overseas contin23 gency operations and related activities for fiscal 

24 years 2014 through 2016 in excess of the levels 

25 set in subsection 251(b)(2)(E) shall be counted 


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1 in determining whether a breach has occurred 

2 in the security category.’’; and 

3 (2) in subsection (b)(2)— 

4 (A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by inserting 

5 ‘‘for fiscal years 2017 through 2021,’’ before 

6 ‘‘the Congress’’; and 

7 (B) by inserting at the end the following: 

8 ‘‘(E) OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPER9 ATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM.—If, for 

10 fiscal years 2014 through 2016, appropriations 

11 for discretionary accounts are enacted that 

12 Congress designates for Overseas Contingency 

13 Operations/Global War on Terrorism in statute 

14 on an account by account basis, the adjustment 

15 for the fiscal year shall be the total of such ap16 propriations for the fiscal year in discretionary 

17 accounts designated as being for Overseas Con18 tingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism, 

19 but not to exceed— 

20 ‘‘(i) for fiscal year 2014, 

21 $92,289,000,000 in additional new budget 

22 authority; 

23 ‘‘(ii) for fiscal year 2015, 

24 $37,283,000,000 in additional new budget 

25 authority; and 


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1 ‘‘(iii) for fiscal year 2016, 

2 $37,283,000,000 in additional new budget 

3 authority.’’. 


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Calendar No. 64 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 788 

A BILL 

To suspend the fiscal year 2013 sequester and 

establish limits on war-related spending. 

APRIL 24, 2013 

Read the second time and placed on the calendar 


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