Timetable for Sequestration Actions


 

Publication Date: March 2001

Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

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Research Area: Government

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Sequestration -- the automatic across-the-board cancellation of budgetary resources for the purpose of enforcing budgetary goals -- was first established by the 1985 Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Act (Title II of P.L. 99-177). Section 254 of this act, as amended, provides a timetable for sequestration actions.