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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);
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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing S. 16 as introduced in Senate on Feb 27, 2013. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Senate Feb 28, 2013
Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.16
Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
38 Yea 62 Nay
Crossed both parties 11 of 100 voting members broke with their own party: 2 Democrats, 9 Republicans.
DemocratsIndependentsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor S. 16 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named S. 16 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
24 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.