DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE AND REALIGNMENT COMMISSION

Articles and editorials

Skinner—Arsenal Dodged a Bullet, S10585 [28SE]

Bills and resolutions

Armed Forces: facilitate testimony by members on the military value of military installations in connection with defense base closure and realignment (see S. 1136), S6021 [26MY]

Dept. of Defense: disapprove recommendations for closure and realignment of military installations unless such recommendations will not adversely affect homeland security (see H. Res. 412), H7562 [28JY]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations (see S. 1075), S5437 [18MY] (see H.R. 2427), H3554 [18MY] (see H.R. 2511), H3694 [19MY]

———prohibit closure or adverse realignment of facilities determined by Dept. of Homeland Security to have a significant role in homeland defense (see H.R. 2733), H4141 [26MY]

———release all documentation used for recommendations on closures and realignments of military installations (see S. 1127), S5921 [25MY] (see H.R. 2857), H4355 [9JN] (see H.R. 4302), H10156 [10NO]

———require base closure and realignment process to adhere to certain requirements regarding the preservation of military depot capabilities (see H.R. 1314), H1508 [15MR]

Military installations: consider homeland security contributions and value when reviewing list of military installations recommended for realignment or closure (see H.R. 2641), H4073 [25MY] (see H.R. 2667), H4139 [26MY]

Recommendations: disapprove (see H.J. Res. 64, 65), H8162 [20SE]

———disapprove, consideration (see H. Res. 469), H8512 [28SE]

Excerpts

Recommendations report, E2232 [1NO]

Letters

Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations effect on intelligence capabilities: Representatives Hoekstra and Harman, Committee on Intelligence (House, Select), H4847 [21JN]

Impact of Dept. of Defense military installation realignment and closure recommendations on the Cleveland, OH, area: Representative Kucinich, E1001 [17MY]

Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, retention: Anthony J. Principi, Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, H9307 [27OC]

Messages

Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Recommendations: President Bush, S10117 [15SE], H8061 [15SE]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Defense: disapprove recommendations for closure and realignment of military installations unless such recommendations will not adversely affect homeland security (H. Res. 412), H7872 [14SE]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations, H4027-H4035 [25MY], H4788 [20JN]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations (H.R. 2511), E1051 [20MY]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations until a strategy is submitted for environmental clean up of previously closed bases, H3746 [23MY], H3771 [24MY], H3898, H3906 [25MY], H4082, H4091, H4099, H4100-H4103 [26MY], E1099 [25MY]

———recommendation to close Brunswick, ME, Naval Air Station, H9303, H9305 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Cannon AFB, NM, H3265 [16MY], H9297 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Limestone, ME, E1364 [27JN]

———recommendation to close Defense Finance and Accounting Services Center in Cleveland, OH, H5083 [23JN], H9294, H9296 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Ellington AFB, TX, H5642 [12JY], H6436 [26JY], H9298 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Ellsworth AFB, SD, H3293 [16MY], E1343 [24JN]

———recommendation to close Fort Gillen, GA, H9308 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Fort McPherson, GA, H9308 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Fort Monmouth, NJ, H9294 [27OC], E1747 [2SE]

———recommendation to close General Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, WI, E2219 [28OC]

———recommendation to close Ingleside, TX, Naval Station, H9307 [27OC]

———recommendation to close New London, CT, Naval Submarine Base, H9306, H9307 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Ohio National Guard 179th Airlift Wing, Mansfield, OH, H9304 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Rock Island Arsenal, IL, H3915 [25MY], H9298 [27OC]

———recommendation to close Willow Grove, PA, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, H9302, H9304 [27OC]

———recommendation to realign Air National Guard in Nashville, TN, H9295 [27OC]

———recommendation to realign Air National Guard in Springfield, IL, H9299 [27OC]

———recommendation to realign Fort Rucker, AL, H9304 [27OC]

———recommendation to realign Hanscom AFB, MA, H9303 [27OC]

———recommendation to realign Naval Air Station Point Mugu in Ventura, CA, E2280 [4NO]

———recommendation to retain Picatinny Arsenal, NJ, H9307 [27OC]

———release all documentation used for recommendations on closures and realignments of military installations, H4109, H4110 [26MY]

———reopen runway at Malmstrom AFB, MT, H7034, H7035 [28JY]

Dept. of Veterans Affairs: veterans health care funding through reductions in Base Realignment and Closure Account funding, H4096, H4097 [26MY]

Military installations: consider homeland security contributions and value when reviewing list of military installations recommended for realignment or closure, H3902 [25MY]

Recommendations: disapprove, consideration (H. Res. 469), H8525-H8528 [29SE]

———disapprove (H.J. Res. 65), H8104 [20SE], H9289 [27OC], E2219, E2223 [28OC], E2232 [1NO], E2280 [4NO]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Defense: offer to transfer property located at closed or realigned military installations to local redevelopment authorities at no cost, S12427-S12432 [7NO], S12478, S12479, S12489, S12490 [8NO], S12600 [9NO]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations, S7496 [28JN], S8650, S8651, S8657-S8660 [21JY], S8738 [22JY], S8773, S8807-S8810 [25JY], S8927-S8929, S8937 [26JY]

———postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations (S. 1075), S5447 [18MY]

———recommendation to close Ellsworth AFB, SD, S5434 [18MY]

———recommendation to close Rock Island Arsenal, IL, S10584 [28SE]

———recommendation to realign Eilson AFB, AK, S6002 [26MY]

———release all documentation used for recommendations on closures and realignments of military installations (S. 1127), S5933-S5936, S5940 [25MY], S6002, S6065 [26MY]

———reopen runway at Malmstrom AFB, MT, S9330 [29JY]

Recommendations, S3548 [13AP]

———disapprove (H.J. Res. 64), S10584 [28SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Recommendations Disapproval: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 469) (H. Rept. 109-239), H8512 [28SE]

Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission Recommendations Disapproval: Committee on Armed Services (House) (H.J. Res. 65) (H. Rept. 109-243), H8642 [29SE]

Nomination of Anthony J. Principi to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission: Committee on Armed Services (Senate), S2993 [17MR]

Tables

2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission timeline, S8657 [21JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 469, consideration of H.J. Res. 68, continuing appropriations, motions to suspend House Rules and consider certain legislation, and disapprove Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations, H8525 [29SE]

H.J. Res. 65, Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission recommendations disapproval, H9308 [27OC]

S. 1075, postpone certain closures and realignments of military installations, S5448 [18MY]