A measure that would jump start a process to unload excess federal properties could receive a vote on the House floor as early as this week. After making a quick stop in the House Rules Committee Friday, the Civilian BRAC bill is expected to gain passage in the chamber …
Legislation approved in committee last year to create a civilian BRAC commission could receive a vote on the House floor after a controversial provision requiring the federal government to sell or swap a number of properties in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere was removed from the measure …
The Defense Department will ask either an independent institute or a federally-funded research and development center to make recommendations regarding the closure and realignment of the nation’s overseas military facilities, under the conference agreement for the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill reached last week …
Legislation creating a civilian BRAC commission to expedite the disposal of unneeded federal properties would require $198 million in federal appropriations from fiscal 2012-2016, according to a cost estimate released last week by the Congressional Budget Office. About $157 million of that spending would be needed to operate the civilian property realignment commission created by the measure …
Legislation advancing in the House that would create a civilian BRAC commission to expedite the disposal of unneeded federal properties should be included in the final recommendations of the congressional deficit reduction committee, Rep. Jeff Denham, the bill’s sponsor, said Thursday. “One thing that we should all agree on is that the sale of unneeded federal property is one of the few bipartisan ways to save taxpayer dollars …
Federal agencies are on pace to eliminate $3.5 billion in real estate costs by the end of 2012, exceeding a goal President Obama set in June 2010 for shedding excess properties and lowering operating costs, OMB said Thursday. Agencies already have achieved $1.5 billion in savings through a combination of sales, consolidations, canceled projects, and reduced maintenance and utility costs …
A federal commission would be created to consider closing outdated overseas military bases, under a bill introduced Wednesday by Sens. Jon Tester and Kay Bailey Hutchison. The report and recommendations prepared by the eight-member commission for the president and Congress would include a proposed overseas basing strategy for current and future missions, taking into account “heightened fiscal constraints …
Amid a flurry of proposals sent by fellow lawmakers last week to the congressional deficit reduction committee, the chairman of the Senate subcommittee overseeing federal real estate offered the panel a plan to encourage federal agencies to dispose of thousands of unneeded properties. While it shares many of the same goals as legislation currently moving in the House, the plan submitted by Sen. Tom Carper seems to differ in many respects …
A controversial provision requiring the federal government to sell the Washington headquarters of the Department of Energy, among other properties, likely will sink the prospects of legislation that would create a civilian BRAC commission from becoming law, reports the Washington Business Journal …
A measure creating a civilian BRAC commission to expedite the disposal of unneeded federal properties, saving an estimated $15 billion, was approved Thursday by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. The legislation would establish a framework through which an independent commission would review federal properties and make recommendations for consolidations …