I 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6365 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to replace the sequester established by the Budget Control Act of 2011. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012 
Mr. WEST introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Budget 
A BILL 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 to replace the sequester established 
by the Budget Control Act of 2011. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Security and 
Job Protection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Current law requires that there be across- 
the-board cuts, known as a ‘‘sequester’’, imposed on 
January 2, 2013. The sequester will result in a 10 
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percent reduction in non-military personnel pro-
grams of the Department of Defense and an 8 per-
cent reduction in certain domestic programs, such as 
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and border 
security. 
(2) Intended as a mechanism to force action, 
there is bipartisan agreement that the sequester 
going into place would undercut key responsibilities 
of the Federal Government. 
(3) As the Administration stated in its fiscal 
year 2013 budget request, ‘‘[Sequestration] would 
lead to significant cuts to critical domestic programs 
such as education and research and cuts to defense 
programs that could undermine our national secu-
rity. . . . [C]uts of this magnitude done in an 
across-the-board fashion would be devastating both 
to defense and non-defense programs.’’ (The Budget 
of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013, 
p. 24, February 13, 2012). 
(4) On March 29, 2012, The House of Rep-
resentatives passed H. Con. Res. 112, the budget 
resolution for fiscal year 2013, which includes rec-
onciliation instructions directing House Committees 
to craft legislation that would achieve the savings re-
quired to replace the sequestration called for in fis-
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cal year 2013, as established by the Budget Control 
Act of 2011. 
(5) On May 10, 2012, the House of Represent-
atives passed H.R. 5652, the Sequestration Replace-
ment Reconciliation Act of 2012, which would re-
place the $98 billion sequestration of discretionary 
spending called for in 2013, as established by the 
Budget Control Act of 2011, by making changes in 
law to reduce direct spending by $310 billion 
through fiscal year 2022. 
(6) An analysis of the impact of the sequestra-
tion prepared for the Chairman of the House Armed 
Services Committee found that if left in place, se-
questration would cut the military to its smallest 
size since before the Second World War, all while we 
are still a nation at war in Afghanistan, facing in-
creased threats from Iran and North Korea, unrest 
in the Middle East, and a rising China. 
(7) Major consequences identified by the House 
Armed Services Committee include the following: 
(A) 200,000 soldiers and Marines sepa-
rated from service, bringing our force well 
below our pre-9/11 levels. 
(B) Ability to respond to contingencies in 
North Korea or Iran at jeopardy. 
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(C) The smallest ground force since 1940. 
(D) A fleet of fewer than 230 ships, the 
smallest level since 1915. 
(E) The smallest tactical fighter force in 
the history of the Air Force. 
(F) Our nuclear triad that has kept the 
U.S. and 30 of our allies safe for decades will 
be in jeopardy. 
(G) Reductions of 20 percent in defense ci-
vilian personnel. 
(H) Two BRAC rounds of base closings. 
(House Armed Services Committee memo enti-
tled ‘‘Assessment of Impacts of Budget Cuts’’, 
September 22, 2011). 
(8) Secretary Panetta and the professional mili-
tary leadership have also looked at the impact of se-
questration and reached similar conclusions. 
(9) Secretary Panetta stated, ‘‘If the maximum 
sequestration is triggered, the total cut will rise to 
about $1 trillion compared with the FY 2012 plan. 
The impacts of these cuts would be devastating for 
the Department. . . Facing such large reductions, 
we would have to reduce the size of the military 
sharply. Rough estimates suggest after ten years of 
these cuts, we would have the smallest ground force 
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