
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, June 18, 1990                   TAG: 9006180276
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: EVENING 
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WARNER SEEKS TO SAVE PLANNED NAVY OFFICE

Members of Virginia's congressional delegation believe they can salvage a proposed $1 billion Navy office complex that is being held hostage in a dispute between Congress and the White House.

But Republican Sen. John Warner and Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Fairfax County, said they are asking the Navy to re-evaluate the proposal to see if the service can make do with less space and less money.

"The original concept of this building was based on a 600-ship Navy, and that has now been revised" downward, Warner said. "In my judgment, [Navy officials] have to make more realistic plans."

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., has moved to block construction of the offices for about 20,000 Navy employees in Northern Virginia. He says the Bush administration has not adequately outlined how the buildings will be funded.

Moynihan, chairman of a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee panel that controls the projects, refused to authorize their construction at a committee meeting last week.

- Associated Press

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