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2 U.S.C. § 908 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–33, title X, § 10210, Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 711
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 99–177, title II, § 258, as added Pub. L. 100–119, title I, § 105(a), Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 778, related to modification of Presidential order.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 99–177, title II, § 258, as added Pub. L. 100–119, title I, § 105(a), Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 778, related to modification of Presidential order.
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**(a) Omitted**
**(b) General statement of budget enforcement through sequestration** This subchapter provides for budget enforcement as called for in House Concurrent Resolution 84 (105th Congress, 1st session).
**(c) Definitions** As used in this subchapter:
(1) The terms “budget authority”, “new budget authority”, “outlays”, and “deficit” have the meanings given to such terms in section 3 of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [[2 U.S.C. 622](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section622&num=0&edition=prelim)] and “discretionary spending limit” shall mean the amounts specified in [section 901 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section901&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) The terms “sequester” and “sequestration” refer to or mean the cancellation of budgetary resources provided by discretionary appropriations or direct spending law.
(3) The term “breach” means, for any fiscal year, the amount (if any) by which new budget authority or outlays for that year (within a category of discretionary appropriations) is above that category’s discretionary spending limit for new budget authority or outlays for that year, as the case may be.
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(A) The term “nonsecurity category” means all discretionary appropriations not included in the security category defined in subparagraph (B).
(B) The term “security category” includes discretionary appropriations associated with agency budgets for the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the intelligence community management account (95–0401–0–1–054), and all budget accounts in budget function 150 (international affairs).
(C
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**(a) Procedures in event of low-growth report**
(1) **Trigger** — Whenever CBO issues a low-growth report under section 254(i) [[2 U.S.C. 904(i)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section904/i&num=0&edition=prelim)], the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives may, and the Majority Leader of the Senate shall, introduce a joint resolution (in the form set forth in paragraph (2)) declaring that the conditions specified in section 254(i) are met and suspending the relevant provisions of this title,11 See References in Text note below. titles III and VI 1 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 [[2 U.S.C. 631](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section631&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.], and [section 1103 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1103&num=0&edition=prelim).
(2) **Form of joint resolution**
(A) The matter after the resolving clause in any joint resolution introduced pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be as follows: “That the Congress declares that the conditions specified in section 254(j) 1 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are met, and the implementation of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, chapter 11 of title 31, United States Code, and part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are modified as described in section 258(b) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.”
(B) The title of the joint resolution shall be “Joint resolution suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.”; and the joint resolution shall not contain any preamble.
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TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
§ 908
scribed in section 632(d) of this title with re-
spect to alternatives to the order envisioned
by such report insofar as such order affects
laws within the jurisdiction of the committee.
(2) Initial Budget Committee action
After the submission of such a report, the
Committee on the Budget of the Senate may,
not later than October 15, report to the Senate
a resolution. The resolution may affirm the
impact of the order envisioned by such report,
in whole or in part. To the extent that any
part is not affirmed, the resolution shall state
which parts are not affirmed and shall contain
instructions to committees of the Senate of
the type referred to in section 641(a) of this
title, sufficient to achieve at least the total
level of deficit reduction contained in those
sections which are not affirmed.
(3) Response of committees
Committees instructed pursuant to para-
graph (2), or affected thereby, shall submit
their responses to the Budget Committee no
later than 10 days after the resolution referred
to in paragraph (2) is agreed to, except that if
only one such Committee is so instructed such
Committee shall, by the same date, report to
the Senate a reconciliation bill or reconcili-
ation resolution containing its recommenda-
tions in response to such instructions. A com-
mittee shall be considered to have complied
with all instructions to it pursuant to a reso-
lution adopted under paragraph (2) if it has
made recommendations with respect to mat-
ters within its jurisdiction which would result
in a reduction in the deficit at least equal to
the total reduction directed by such instruc-
tions.
(4) Budget Committee action
Upon receipt of the recommendations re-
ceived in response to a resolution referred to
in
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