31.   If a one-war scenario doctrine is adopted, it could open the door to more troop cuts, base closures and reductions in weapons purchases.

32.   If Congress agrees to a formal base closure process, Cohen says, the affected communities would receive some federal assistance in finding other roles for their installations.

33.   In adjacent Alameda County, military base closures have offset job gains in other industries to keep employment flat.

34.   In fact, Mann said, the base closure process was deliberately designed to protect it from individual lobbying by powerful states like California.

35.   In a way, the base closure is an eviction.

36.   In Corpus Christi, leaders were relatively pleased with the base closure list because the area stands to gain more jobs than it loses.

37.   In three previous rounds of base closures, the White House accepted the recommendations of the independent base-closure commission without dissent.

38.   Led by Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, Brownback joined a half-dozen others seeking to set up a commission modeled after the military base closure commission.

39.   Legislators raised other contentious topics from peacekeeping missions to new rounds of base closures, but did not try to reach a consensus on how to address them.

40.   Matters of the defense budget, base closures and weapons projects could also feel the impact.