Posted on 10/23/2019 7:44:56 AM PDT by 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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LOVE IT
JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!
move the capital to Kansas and turn DC into museum city and historical center
Great idea!
Send Department of State to Detroit.
Send the IRS to Alaska.
Have to be careful though. They’ll vote Dem and can mess up other states.
I’ve said for years that the national capitol should be moved to Wichita, Kansas.
The northeastern quadrant of the U.S. is infected with terminal elitism.
The only agency that should be in dc is DoD and Pentagon.
I love it! How many elitist bureaucrats would give up their sinecures to live in bustling Podunk?
we will build a hyper-loop system underground capable of 2-3,000 miles an hour. Kansas would be the natural hub for diagonal/ norths south./ and east web lines.
Put the center or hub in Kansas.
Run lines from LA to Kansas and NY,
Seattle to Kansas to Atlanta.
NY to DC to Atlanta,
LA to SF to Seattle,
Seattle to Chicago to NY,
LA to Dallas to Atlanta
Dallas to Kansas to Chicago.
No other stops because it would slow down the system.
Local lines up to local states and government and private parties.
I think it should rotate between state capitols every Congress.
Move the State Department to Gitmo.
BAD idea. Better to concentrate leftists in a few distracts rather than fan them out to spread their worldview in Trump country. Trump country doesn’t need more leftist transplants from DC, New York, etc.
I imagine the truth is that some of the grist in the wheel that wants to move federal agencies out of Washington D.C. is actually directed at some of the folks serving in those agencies.
They have become entrenched there and too much see themselves as “the government”, when in our system they are only the hired help of the government. The actual government is the legislature, the appointed judiciary, and the cabinet heads of agencies nominated by the president and approved by the Senate. Other than a few other executive appointed folks, every else in the federal bureaucracies are ONLY the hired help, not the government.
I think maybe what we need is a law that limits the tenure of all bureaucrats to no more than ten years, and then they can go work somewhere else, and not allowed to return to another federal agency, ever.
The greatest benefit of tenure in a government job is the workers and their immediate bosses have lined up the work to suit them, with them thinking they are the government. They right the rules of how the agencies work, and then they say they are needed because most folks outside the agencies don’t understand how they work - which is not efficiently.
The workers and the way they work becomes entrenched in its own ways and in its arrogance as to who they think they are.
Yes, move ‘em all out of D.C. Many will quit (that alone is a good thing), the whole mess needs both a shaking up and some new blood.
Nah.
Int’l Falls or Stuart, IA.
With teleconferencing, you can work anywhere in the world.
Kearney, Nebraska may be a better choice. It’s near the geographical center of the contiguous 48 states in Lebanon, Kansas.
Yet, it also has a major interstate running through it.
Hawley’s on to something.
Spread em out.
Reduce the population of government bow wows...
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