Additional Criteria Are Needed for BRAC

• By Sen. Edward Kennedy
• Special to Roll Call
• May 6, 2005, 2:41 p.m.

For many months, communities across the nation have been nervously awaiting the news from the Bush administration about which military bases it proposes to close in the current round of the Base Realignment and Closing process. The anxiety is with good reasons. The administration has called this round the “mother of all BRACs” and suggested that the Pentagon intends to eliminate as much as 25 percent of its infrastructure as part of Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s so-called “transformation plan.”