Suburban D.C. officials who are navigating how to absorb the closure of Walter Reed Army Medical Center have not stalled their efforts in the face of the U.S. House’s passage of a bill to keep the hospital open.

The measure, which would bar the use of funds to close the troubled D.C. medical facility, is tagged onto a $124 billion supplemental Iraq spending bill that passed 218-212 on Friday. But the full Senate has not yet voted on the bill, which faces the promise of a veto from the president, who opposes provisions that would mandate a 2008 troop withdrawal.