Hawley to Introduce Bill to Move Federal Agencies out of Washington D.C. ...

National Review ^ | October 23, 2019 | Jack Crowe

[yesthatjallen]

Hawley to Introduce Bill to Move Federal Agencies out of Washington D.C. to Economically Stagnant Areas

Days after squaring off online against “elitist” critics of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s relocation of agency jobs, Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) will introduce legislation on Wednesday that would move the majority of the federal bureaucracy out of Washington D.C. to economically depressed areas, according to a summary of the bill provided to National Review.

The “Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) Act,” which is cosponsored by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.), would move 90 percent of the positions within ten executive agencies to economically distressed regions that have a stake in the work of those respective agencies.

Under the bill, the Department of Agriculture would be relocated to Hawley’s home state of Missouri while the Department of Education would move to Blackburn’s Tennessee, in order to disperse the economic benefits associated with relatively high-paying government jobs that currently accrue to just a few zip codes.

“Every year Americans’ hard-earned tax dollars fund federal agencies that are mainly located in the D.C. bubble. That’s a big part of the problem with Washington: they’re too removed from the rest of America. The Hire Act will move policymakers directly into the communities they serve, creating thousands of jobs for local communities and saving taxpayers billions of dollars along the way,” Hawley said in a statement.

The bill comes in the wake of Hawley’s online feud with Department of Agriculture research analyst Andrew Crane-Droesch, who wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday arguing that Perdue relocated his division, the Economic Research Service, to Kansas City. Mo. last year in order to undermine its staff because their research didn’t support the administration’s policy goals.

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I disagree. They should first build an immense, half underground facility in the middle of the US. It should be surrounded by a ring of housing for military personnel who work there and hotels for civilians and contractors. In turn it should be surrounded by a very large military base.

[mewzilla]

Better idea: devolve a lot of this back to the states and fire the federal level sh*tbags.

[DoodleDawg]

If the purpose is headcount reduction then just pass a law allowing all the current employees to be fired and be done with it.

[gr8eman]

The northeastern quadrant of the U.S. is infected with terminal elitism.

It's called Yankeeland!

[asinclair]

Another possibility: establish Federal campuses in multiple locations. Each department would have offices in each campus. As a starting point, define a campus for each of the Circuit Court districts. Decentralize.

The House and Senate should meet via conferencing systems, with the representatives located in each of their home states. No more exposing the Legislative Branch to the hazards of air travel. (Do any of them take the train?)

[CJ Wolf]

Yes! Hopefully it would turn NOVA back to sanity. Feel bad for the towns that get these bloated blue meanies.

[Political Junkie Too]

I’ve said for years that the national capitol should be moved to Wichita, Kansas.

Me, too, except move it to new district outside of Omaha.

1. It's in the center of the country and protected from invasion or missile attacks.
2. Strategic Air Command is there.
3. Offutt Air Force Base can become the new Andrews.
4. Real shovel-ready jobs.
5. It will tweak the elite's sense of superiority to be away from the marbled palace of DC. People would have to REALLY want to serve in government if they had to live in Omaha.
6. DC would make a superb national landmark city/museum, and can hold international conferences, national ceremonies, etc. Just move the offices of government away from there.
7. Don't allow the elites to name a ceremonial capital somewhere else while the true legislating remains in DC as a state.

-PJ

[contrarian]

Add the provision that makes it a felony for any lobbyist to enter any of the offices with mandatory permanent banishment from any governmental offices.Death penalty for second offenses with no appeal.

[eyeamok]

Just Do It!!!!

[eyeamok]

And the IRS goes to Puerto Rico right??

[kvanbrunt2]

Most of the agencies need to move to Nome, Alaska. Nice place. perfect for a slimy bureaucrat. Build some nice barracks, cots, cloth partitions....

[sergeantdave]

Hawley to Introduce Bill to Move Federal Agencies out of Washington D.C. to Economically Stagnant Areas

This would completely destroy the criminal fascist state occupying Washington.

For those not familiar with the federal fat-ass bureaucrat state, it is composed of low-IQ, fat, affirmative action morons who squat at their desks all day, stuffing their fat faces with 10-lb bags of potato chips and guzzling gallons of coca cola, while engaging in no discernible work.

Unlike the comicbook fantasy spewed by FR’s execrable surrender monkey brigade, these fat jellyfish will NOT go door-to-door and take away your weapons. These bureaucrats will shrivel in horror at the thought of that.

So, we need to encourage Hawley to ship these fat bureaucrat pigs to every corner of America so we can laugh at and control them.

[semimojo]

...makes it a felony for any lobbyist to enter any of the offices with mandatory permanent banishment from any governmental offices.

Sounds good except for that constitutional right we have to petition the government.

[FLT-bird]

Excellent. Drain the Swamp.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

This would drain the swamp more surely than any other action. Can’t the head of the Executive Branch do this by executive order? Congress won’t supoport it.

[rxh4n1]

Why? DC is just as bad already.

[rxh4n1]

I hear Dutch Harbor is lovely.

[joma89]

Winning! More please.

JoMa

[Have Ruck - Will Travel]

Heck no. Move the Department of State to Mississippi or Alabama. They need a lot more conservative input. Wouldn’t that blow some minds?

[Svartalfiar]

5. It will tweak the elite's sense of superiority to be away from the marbled palace of DC. People would have to REALLY want to serve in government if they had to live in Omaha.

And how long do you think it would take them to turn new-DC into the same as old-DC? You have to break up and separate the concentration of govteat. Otherwise you'll just get the same result eventually.