August 07, 2012
On Tuesday, August 7, 2012, the President signed into law:
H.R. 5872, the "Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012," which requires the President to provide a report to the Congress relating to funding reductions scheduled to take place on January 2, 2013.
Barack Obama, Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 5872 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/310017