WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- A U.S. House panel Wednesday adopted a measure delaying military base closings till 2007.
The House Armed Services Committee rejected an attempt to kill the next scheduled round of military base closing in 2005, but accepted a compromise to delay them by two years.
The amendment was added to the 2005 defense budget.
Committee Democrats failed in their attempt to shift hundreds of million of dollars in missile defense spending to pay for construction of new military family housing.
The measure still faces a vote by the entire House and compromise negotiations with the Senate for a final version of the bill, but the base closing issue is a sore one for members weary of the job losses in their states and districts resulting from the shuttering of a military installation.
