Techniques for Preventing a Budget Sequester.

Briefly describes the budget sequestration process, established by Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as means of enforcing deficit targets. Examines the ways in which a sequester could be avoided under the regular process, outlines various techniques that have been used since...

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Corporate Authors: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2002.
Series:U.S. Congressional Research.
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Summary:Briefly describes the budget sequestration process, established by Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 as means of enforcing deficit targets. Examines the ways in which a sequester could be avoided under the regular process, outlines various techniques that have been used since FY1991 to prevent a sequester by intervening in the regular process.
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