spending will be necessary for a comprehensive def-
icit reduction solution. 
(11) Congress must establish a manageable, 
long-term discretionary spending plan. An additional 
$320 billion in targetable cuts to discretionary ap-
propriations from fiscal year 2014 through fiscal 
year 2021 represents one-third of the net amount 
that would have been indiscriminately cut by seques-
tration over fiscal years 2013 through 2021. 
(12) It is recognized that a reduction of $167 
billion to discretionary appropriations within budget 
function 050 from fiscal year 2014 through fiscal 
year 2021 will affect the National Military Strategy. 
The Department of Defense is highly encouraged to 
revisit its current strategic guidance and to work 
closely with Congress in building a new National 
Military Strategy that accounts for available re-
source levels. 
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are to— 
(1) eliminate the threat of sequestration to the 
American economy; 
(2) offer the Federal Government, industry, and 
the American people the predictability that economic 
recovery demands; 
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(3) enable the Congress to pass appropriations 
legislation in regular order with a clear discretionary 
spending budget and grant the legislative and execu-
tive branches of government the flexibility needed to 
identify and implement specific discretionary spend-
ing reductions in a responsible and deliberate man-
ner; and 
(4) provide a practicable, long-term discre-
tionary spending plan that will contribute to a com-
prehensive, balanced, long-term, deficit reduction so-
lution that includes affordable revisions to manda-
tory spending and new revenues. 
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF SECTION 251A SEQUESTRATIONS. 
Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is repealed. 
SEC. 4. $320 BILLION REDUCTION IN DISCRETIONARY 
SPENDING LIMITS. 
The discretionary spending limits set forth in para-
graphs (3) through (10) of section 251(c) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) for fiscal year 2014— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$546,000,000,000 in budget authority; and 
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‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$501,000,000,000 in budget authority; 
‘‘(4) with respect to fiscal year 2015— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$550,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$505,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(5) with respect to fiscal year 2016— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$559,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$513,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(6) with respect to fiscal year 2017— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$569,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$522,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(7) with respect to fiscal year 2018— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$579,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$531,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(8) with respect to fiscal year 2019— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$589,500,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
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‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$541,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(9) with respect to fiscal year 2020— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$602,500,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$553,000,000,000 in new budget authority; 
‘‘(10) with respect to fiscal year 2021— 
‘‘(A) 
for 
the 
security 
category, 
$616,000,000,000 in new budget authority; and 
‘‘(B) 
for 
the 
nonsecurity 
category, 
$565,000,000,000 in new budget authority;’’. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITION OF SECURITY CATEGORY. 
Section 250(c)(4)(B) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 is amended to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(B)(i) For fiscal years 2012 and 2013, the 
term ‘security category’ means discretionary appro-
priations associated with agency budgets for the De-
partment of Defense, the Department of Homeland 
Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the 
National Nuclear Security Administration, the intel-
ligence community management account (95–0401– 
0–1–054), and all budget accounts in budget func-
tion 150 (international affairs). 
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‘‘(ii) For fiscal years 2014 through 2021, the 
term ‘security category’ means discretionary appro-
priations in budget function 050 (national de-
fense).’’. 
SEC. 6. SUSPENSION OF STATUTORY LIMIT ON THE PUBLIC 
DEBT UNTIL FEBRUARY 1, 2017. 
Section 2 of the No Budget, No Pay Act of 2013 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘May 18, 
2013’’ and inserting ‘‘January 31, 2017’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘May 19, 
2013’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘Feb-
ruary 1, 2017’’. 
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