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-Land of the Free

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

2019-10-24

[NationalReview] 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.

Not that a matching bill will be passed in the Democrat-controlled House, but it’s definitely useful as a talking point.

Posted by:Procopius2k

#6 Someone will try and smite Hawley...

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-10-24 14:43

#5 Far easier to get them to quit than fire them.

Posted by: Skidmark 2019-10-24 13:23

#4 YES!

Posted by: 3dc 2019-10-24 11:27

#3 Possible should have been necessary. Self limit should have been self term limit.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 09:16

#2 Franklin opined that the seat of government should be somewhere nobody wanted to stay in any longer than possible. He also thought all government service should be gratis, so everyone would self limit by the need to "return to their private and profitable pursuits."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-10-24 09:15

#1 Should be part of the 2020 Republican platform.

Posted by: Pancho Flerens6518 2019-10-24 05:02

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