Sequesters

Failure to hit an annual target was supposed to automatically trigger across-the-board spending cuts known as sequesters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stock and bond market experts on Sunday said Wall Street markets likely would not react in a major way on Monday, as the so-called sequesters - budget terminology for automatic spending cuts - still provide an insurance policy that the annual deficit could be curtailed. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The idea is that the threat of such so-called sequesters would ensure lawmakers wouldn't violate pay-go.

If Appropriators exceed the spending targets set early in the fiscal year under the Budget Act, automatic " sequesters, " or across the board program cuts, would be imposed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I guess I need to know how the plankton "sequesters" the CO2. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"sequesters," more carbon than degraded natural grasslands. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A team of scientists will soon dump 20 tons of iron sulphate into the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean to test whether the fertilization helps pull large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere and sequesters it under the sea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A lot of people have been calling the health care debacle a ‘Hail Mary’ pass, which is nonsensical: nobody sane expects a program that takes that much earned wealth and sequesters it away into government purdah to somehow create more wealth. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Biochar also sequesters carbon because plants absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow. ❋ Kelpie Wilson (2010)

The caps would be enforced by automatic sequesters requiring supermajorities in Congress to override. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Wood, such as Accoya®, naturally sequesters carbon, helping to combat the effects of global warming. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One must presume that there is a plan in place: The 14th Amendment will be upheld, the bonds will be paid, the full faith and credit of the nation will be reaffirmed -- and massive cuts and sequesters will be put into effect. ❋ David Paul (2011)

Planting trees helps improve nutrition, affords children more time to attend school, safeguards rainforests from encroachment, helps prevent mudslides, provides animal habitat, sequesters carbon from the atmosphere, protects water springs, and much more. ❋ Alliance For Global Conservation (2011)

Far better would be statutory limits on spending increases and debt as a share of GDP, sequesters that automatically cut spending if Congress exceeds those limits, supermajority rules for replacing those limits, and revisions of the budget baseline so that each year's budget begins at last year's spending levels, not with automatic increases. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The old Gramm-Rudman sequesters were triggered by the filing of such reports. ❋ Phil Gramm (2011)

According to the USDA pdf, one acre of protected land sequesters 1.66 metric tons of carbon every year, carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. ❋ Donald Carr (2012)