Emergency Spending: Statutory and Congressional Rules Metadata
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Title
- Main Title Emergency Spending: Statutory and Congressional Rules
Creator
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Author: Saturno, James V.Creator Type: PersonalCreator Info: Government and Finance Division
Publisher
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Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.Place of Publication: Washington D.C.
Date
- Creation: 2001-10-03
Language
- English
Description
- Content Description: Under the Budget Enforcement Act (BEA), there are statutory limits (caps) on the level of federal discretionary spending, enforced by across-the-board spending cuts, known as a sequester. If, however, spending is designated as emergency by both the President and Congress, it will not trigger a sequester, because the caps are adjusted automatically by an amount equal to the emergency spending. Since the BEA was first enacted in 1990, both the House and Senate have supplemented its provisions with additional limitations in their respective rules concerning the use of emergency designations.
- Physical Description: 4 pages.
Subject
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Budgets
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: War and emergency legislation
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Government spending
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Defense policy
- Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Congress
Collection
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Name: Congressional Research Service ReportsCode: CRSR
Institution
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Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents DepartmentCode: UNTGD
Resource Type
- Report
Format
- Text
Identifier
- CRS Report Number: RS21035
- Accession or Local Control No: RS21035 2001-10-03
- Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs1443