WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2019 – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) slammed a bill introduced by Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) that would move most federal agencies outside of the National Capital Region and has introduced a bill to prohibit the relocation of any federal department or agency headquarters outside of the National Capital Region without congressional approval.
“We can have a discussion on ways to make government work better for the American people, but harmful bills introduced for cheap talking points should not be part of that discussion,” Norton said, in a Weekly Update released by her Congressional Office.
“According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), 85 percent of federal employees work outside of the Washington, D.C. metro area,” Norton noted. “Hundreds of federal employees and their families have already been impacted by attempts to relocate agencies, which directly hurts their operations. Congress cannot do its job without the unvarnished facts and briefings that nonpartisan agencies give the House and Senate almost daily. I have already gotten language in appropriations bills that would block politically motivated moves outside the National Capital Region, and I will continue to fight these relocations with every tool at my disposal.” See more on this and other stories in Norton’s Weekly Update at: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwDrvFlXMNDsbhrzpmntkknxnGh
