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Joseph T. Burns: “I am going to oppose and ask that this amendment be tabled. I think what we have here when we start looking at the BRAC…”

On the recordMarch 16, 1995
I am going to oppose and ask that this amendment be tabled. I think what we have here when we start looking at the BRAC, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, we are all at once starting to send wrong messages before the process is even complete on those that are now being considered. I think probably the construction will not go on, especially new construction, on bases that are being considered now. I do not think that is going to happen. So I know where my friend from Arizona is coming from and what he wants to try to do. But I think as chairman of that committee, I would like to see the funds at least stay there, have a possibility of letting that Commission complete its duty, and then rescind that money.
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Joseph T. Burns
Ohio
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Opposing an amendment related to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission during Senate floor debate.

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