[CPEO-IRF] CRS says BRAC applies to Guard bases

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

GOP leader wrong on guard bases, report says

By Ana Radelat, Gannett News Service
USA Today
April 19, 2005

WASHINGTON — Congressional researchers have weighed in on the Pentagon's 
side of a dispute over whether the Pentagon has the authority to include 
National Guard installations in this year's round of base closings.

Last month, Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and other lawmakers, asked the 
Pentagon to stop plans to close guard bases and realign guard units 
without the permission of governors, who have authority over the citizen 
soldiers until they're called to active duty.

"Federal law prohibits the closure or relocation of Army National Guard 
installations or Air National Guard bases without the consent of the 
governors of the state," Hastert wrote Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

But the Congressional Research Service, an investigative agency for 
Congress, has already determined that the federal law that created the 
base realignment and closure process, or BRAC, allows Rumsfeld to 
consider "all military installations inside the United States equally 
..." for shut down.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-18-bases-gns_x.htm


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