Senator Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wants the federal courts to come up with a more comprehensive plan for how to absorb major funding cuts triggered by the Budget Control Act of 2011, better known as sequestration or the “fiscal cliff.”

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts sent an Oct. 2 analysis to Senate Judiciary Committee members detailing how the 8.2 percent across-the-board cuts would strip $555 million from the courts and would be “devastating.”

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