We are halfway through Fiscal Year 2013 ("FY2013") and
some of the budget details and spending plans for federal maritime
agencies are still unresolved. In the meantime, the President has
submitted his budget request for FY2014 and Congress is debating
its outcome. Sequester cuts and fights over whether the sequester
should continue into 2014 are continuing. The outlook for a grand
bargain over the budget between the President and Congress does not
look positive at the time of this writing. This article describes
what budgets the agencies do have to spend for the rest of FY2013
and what the outlook looks like for FY2014.
Discussion
The fight over the FY2013 budget was quite intense, but on March
26, 2013, the President signed into law the most recent Continuing
Resolution ("CR"), keeping the government open and
running for FY2013 or through September 30, 2013 (Pub. L. 113-6).
Some of the agencies were fortunate to have specific appropriation
bills passed and
