Congress’s latest effort at fiscal restraint — the Budget Control Act of 2011 — targeted the one-third of federal spending that goes for discretionary programs. This act has helped to shrink ...

365, Budget Control Act of 2011 H.R. 674, Bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities P ...

as required by the Budget Control Act of 2011. “Cuts equal to or even half (of 9 percent) would be disastrous for many national parks,” states the National Parks Conservation Association.

In his view, these accidents were caused by a readiness crisis that resulted from the cuts imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011. On March 22, as Congress was getting ready to vote on the $1.3 ...