Title: Repeal Sequestration for Defense Act
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance

Summary:
Repeal Sequestration for Defense Act
This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to eliminate the sequestration for security and defense spending. (Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.)

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1441 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1441

To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to eliminate the sequestration for the revised security category under 
      section 251 and to eliminate the section 251A reduction in 
   discretionary appropriations and direct spending accounts within 
                        function 050 (defense).


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 8, 2017

  Mr. Turner introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to eliminate the sequestration for the revised security category under 
      section 251 and to eliminate the section 251A reduction in 
   discretionary appropriations and direct spending accounts within 
                        function 050 (defense).

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Repeal Sequestration for Defense 
Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF SEQUESTRATION UNDER THE REVISED SECURITY 
              CATEGORY.

    Section 251(c)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 is amended by striking each subparagraph (A) for 
fiscal years 2014 through 2021 and by redesignating each subparagraph 
(B) as subparagraph (A).

SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF SECTION 251A REDUCTION IN DISCRETIONARY 
              APPROPRIATIONS AND DIRECT SPENDING ACCOUNTS FOR DEFENSE.

    Section 251A of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985 is amended as follows:
            (1) In paragraph (1)(D), strike ``9'' and insert ``18''.
            (2) In paragraph (2), strike everything after ``section 
        254(c),'' and insert the following: ``OMB shall allocate the 
        total reduction calculated pursuant to paragraph (1) for that 
        year to discretionary appropriations and direct spending 
        accounts except for function 050 (defense function).''.
            (3) Strike paragraph (3).
            (4) In paragraph (5)(B), strike the dash after ``limit'', 
        strike clause (i), and strike ``(ii)'' and move that text 2 ems 
        to the left.
            (5) In paragraph (6)(A), strike ``paragraphs (3) and (4)'' 
        and insert ``paragraph (4)''.
            (6) In paragraph (6)(B), strike the dash after ``that'', 
        strike clause (i), and strike ``(ii)'' and move that text 2 ems 
        to the left.
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