Bill Text: CA SJR3 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Sequestration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-02-25 - In Assembly. Held at Desk. [SJR3 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SJR3-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SJR 3	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Knight

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2013

   Relative to federal spending cuts.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 3, as introduced, Knight. Sequestration.
   This measure would urge the President and Congress of the United
States to avert federal spending cuts known as "sequestration" to,
among other reasons, protect the California and national economies.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, Thousands of workers, countless families, and entire
communities throughout California will be severely and cruelly
affected by automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts
estimated at $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years and known as
"sequestration"; and
   WHEREAS, The impact of a $1.2 trillion across-the-board, forced
federal spending cuts proposed under sequestration will have serious
and deleterious effects on our local, regional, state, and national
economies, and jeopardize hundreds of thousands of high-wage,
high-skill aerospace and other defense-related jobs, nondefense jobs,
and critical social service programs in education, housing, health
care, and other human service programs throughout the nation; and
   WHEREAS, The sequestration spending cuts to over 1,000 government
programs would shrink defense and nondefense discretionary spending
and be devastating to the California and national economies; and
   WHEREAS, Due to our unique combination of geography, cutting edge
technological industries, and manufacturing capabilities, California
is second in the United States for federal defense spending and
provides vital services to our brave men and women serving in uniform
around the world, and a cut to the defense budget would dramatically
reduce the provision of those services and risk the safety of our
troops; and
   WHEREAS, Sequestration cuts would not only hurt California, but
every state, thus threatening another national economic recession;
and
   WHEREAS, Over 2.14 million jobs are projected to be lost in the
United States, including 225,464 jobs lost in California, if the
sequestration cuts are triggered; and
   WHEREAS, An estimated $215 billion reduction in the nation's gross
domestic product, including an almost $23 billion reduction in
California's gross state product are projected, if the sequestration
cuts are triggered; and
   WHEREAS, A long-term, bipartisan compromise that averts
sequestration will protect the California and national economies and
provide a balanced and thoughtful budget solution; now, therefore, be
it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature urges the President and
Congress of the United States to avert federal spending cuts known as
"sequestration" to protect the California and national economies;
and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States,
the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of
the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the United
States Senate, the Minority Leader of the United States Senate, and
to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of
the United States.