S 2462
110th Congress
Senate
Armed Forces and National Security
Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Department of Defense
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government service contracts
Layoffs
A bill to provide that before the Secretary of Defense may furlough any employee of the Department of Defense on the basis of a lack of funds, the Secretary shall suspend any nonessential service contract entered into by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.
Introduced: December 12, 2007
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Became law
Dec 12, 2007
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15251)
Dec 12, 2007
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S15250-15251)
Dec 12, 2007
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of Defense, before furloughing Department of Defense (DOD) employees on the basis of a lack of funds, to suspend all nonessential DOD service contracts as necessary to make up for the lack of funds. Applies this Act to FY2008.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S15251)
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1