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Publication Date: March 2002
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Banking and finance
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Abstract:
For the past 17 fiscal years, beginning with FY 1986, the budgetary decisions of Congress and the President have been guided in part by specific goals in statute enforced by a process known as sequestration.