S. 16 — 113th Congress

A bill to provide for a sequester replacement.

Originated in the Senate · Introduced Feb 27, 2013 · Economics and Public Finance

Latest action

Feb 28, 2013

Motion to proceed to consideration of measure withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S991)

CRS summary

As of Feb 27, 2013

Introduced in Senate

Requires the President, by March 15, 2013, to submit to Congress a qualifying sequester replacement plan proposing to cancel permanently $85.333 billion of budgetary resources available for FY2013 from any discretionary appropriations or direct spending account. Requires further that:

  • up to $42.666.500 billion of budgetary resources be cancelled from defense spending (budget function 050);
  • any cancellation of such budgetary resources comply with the policies under and consistent with amounts authorized in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA FY2013);
  • the cancellation is not implemented through changes to programs or activities contained in the Internal Revenue Code, or increases governmental receipts, offsetting collections, or offsetting receipts;
  • any cancellation of budgetary resources in a non-defense spending account may not be offset against an increase in another such account; and
  • the proposed cancellation reduces outlays by at least $82.500 billion by the end of FY2018.

Sets forth requirements for expedited consideration of a joint resolution of disapproval in both chambers of the qualifying sequester replacement plan.

Requires the President, if the joint resolution of disapproval is not enacted within seven calendar days after March 15, 2013, to cancel: (1) any sequestration order issued under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) for enforcement of a specified budget goal, and (2) the budgetary resources submitted in the qualifying sequester replacement plan.

Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, for FY2013, in implementing sequestration under the Gramm-Rudman-Hollins Act, to transfer amounts appropriated for the Department of Defense (DOD) by the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2013 among DOD accounts.

Requires the total amount in any DOD account available for obligation and expenditure in FY2013 to be consistent with, and not exceed, the amount authorized to be appropriated for that account for FY2013 by division A of the NDAA FY2013.

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Roll-call votes

1 on record

Feb 28, 2013 · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

Full roll call

Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (38–62)

3 of 100 recorded votes are not yet matched to a member profile.

Yea38: 36 R · 1 D

MemberPartyState
BAUCUS, Max SiebenMT
Mark R. WarnerDemocratVA
Lisa MurkowskiRepublicanAK
Jeff SessionsRepublicanAL
Richard C. ShelbyRepublicanAL
John BoozmanRepublicanAR
Jeff FlakeRepublicanAZ
Johnny IsaksonRepublicanGA
Saxby ChamblissRepublicanGA
Chuck GrassleyRepublicanIA
James E. RischRepublicanID
Mike CrapoRepublicanID
Mark KirkRepublicanIL
Daniel CoatsRepublicanIN
Jerry MoranRepublicanKS
Pat RobertsRepublicanKS
Mitch McConnellRepublicanKY
David VitterRepublicanLA
Roy BluntRepublicanMO
Roger F. WickerRepublicanMS
Thad CochranRepublicanMS
Richard BurrRepublicanNC
John HoevenRepublicanND
Deb FischerRepublicanNE
Mike JohannsRepublicanNE
Rob PortmanRepublicanOH
James M. InhofeRepublicanOK
Tom CoburnRepublicanOK
Patrick J. ToomeyRepublicanPA
Tim ScottRepublicanSC
John ThuneRepublicanSD
Bob CorkerRepublicanTN
Lamar AlexanderRepublicanTN
John CornynRepublicanTX
Orrin G. HatchRepublicanUT
Ron JohnsonRepublicanWI
John BarrassoRepublicanWY
Michael B. EnziRepublicanWY

Nay62: 48 D · 9 R · 3 I

MemberPartyState
COWAN, WilliamMA
LAUTENBERG, Frank RaleighNJ
Mark BegichDemocratAK
Mark L. PryorDemocratAR
Barbara BoxerDemocratCA
Dianne FeinsteinDemocratCA
Mark UdallDemocratCO
Michael F. BennetDemocratCO
Christopher MurphyDemocratCT
Richard BlumenthalDemocratCT
Christopher A. CoonsDemocratDE
Thomas R. CarperDemocratDE
Bill NelsonDemocratFL
Brian SchatzDemocratHI
Mazie K. HironoDemocratHI
Tom HarkinDemocratIA
Richard J. DurbinDemocratIL
Joe DonnellyDemocratIN
Mary L. LandrieuDemocratLA
Elizabeth WarrenDemocratMA
Barbara A. MikulskiDemocratMD
Benjamin L. CardinDemocratMD
Carl LevinDemocratMI
Debbie StabenowDemocratMI
Al FrankenDemocratMN
Amy KlobucharDemocratMN
Claire McCaskillDemocratMO
Jon TesterDemocratMT
Kay R. HaganDemocratNC
Heidi HeitkampDemocratND
Jeanne ShaheenDemocratNH
Robert MenendezDemocratNJ
Martin HeinrichDemocratNM
Tom UdallDemocratNM
Harry ReidDemocratNV
Charles E. SchumerDemocratNY
Kirsten E. GillibrandDemocratNY
Sherrod BrownDemocratOH
Jeff MerkleyDemocratOR
Ron WydenDemocratOR
Robert P. Casey, Jr.DemocratPA
Jack ReedDemocratRI
Sheldon WhitehouseDemocratRI
Tim JohnsonDemocratSD
Tim KaineDemocratVA
Patrick J. LeahyDemocratVT
Maria CantwellDemocratWA
Patty MurrayDemocratWA
Tammy BaldwinDemocratWI
John D. Rockefeller, IVDemocratWV
Angus S. King, Jr.IndependentME
Bernard SandersIndependentVT
Joe Manchin, IIIIndependentWV
John McCainRepublicanAZ
Marco RubioRepublicanFL
Rand PaulRepublicanKY
Susan M. CollinsRepublicanME
Kelly AyotteRepublicanNH
Dean HellerRepublicanNV
Lindsey GrahamRepublicanSC
Ted CruzRepublicanTX
Mike LeeRepublicanUT

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