From: | Aimee Houghton <aimeeh@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 11 Dec 2001 16:33:00 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Vieques: House Language May Prevail |
According to the December 10th issue of the Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor it appears that the House language on Vieques may prevail. Once a compromise was reached on new rounds of base closure the last outstanding issue of dispute on the Defense Authorization bill remains Vieques. "A Senate aide said the conference likely will accede to the House's proposal, which will allow the Navy to continue operations on the Puerto Rican island until a suitable alternative is found." Staffers have indicated that the language does away with the referendum (which had already been postponed), will allow for "multiple" training sites as an alternative for Vieques, installs the Secretary of the Navy as the decision person on when/if the Navy will leave, gives no certain date of departure and mandates that the land will go to Department of Interior when/if the Navy ever does leave. From what I understand the conference report is to be filed on Wednesday. The bill will then go to the House floor on Thursday and the Senate floor on Friday. Aimee Please note new phone number and address below. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aimee R. Houghton Associate Director, CPEO 1101 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 tel: 202-452-8039; fax: 202-452-8095 Email: aimeeh@cpeo.org www.cpeo.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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