A federal commission has voted to close the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The Pentagon's plan is to move the hospital's staff and services from Walter Reed to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. which will be expanded.

According to the news release, "the president can accept it, reject it, or send it back to the commission for revisions. Congress also will have a chance to veto the plan in its entirety but it has not taken that step in four previous rounds of base closings. If ultimately approved, the changes would occur over the next six years."