mr. chairman , i yield myself the remaining time .  several members have spoken eloquently about the fact that this is our job .  mr. taylor  did an excellent job of that .  mr. abercrombie  did an excellent job of that , that we ought to be making these decisions , that we should not turn it over to a commission .  i would agree with that wholeheartedly , except this is a job that we simply can not seem to do .  we did not close a major base in this country from the 1970s until the brac process began .  i did not like supporting the brac process when the brac process was first introduced , but i saw it as the only way that we could ever deal with the question of excess inventory .  