House debates future of FBI headquarters

[alp227]

Source: washington post

Local members of Congress prodded federal officials to consider their jurisdictions for a future FBI headquarters at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday, all the while pressing for a politics-free decision.

General Services Administration officials are evaluating 35 responses the agency received this month in its search for ideas about how it might trade the dated J. Edgar Hoover Building, a prime development site, to secure a new FBI headquarters.

There was little argument that the FBI needs a new home during the hearing held by the House subcommittee overseeing public buildings. Completed in 1974, the Hoover building was configured with vast amounts of paper storage, a firing range and a crime lab.

“These features, among others, now represent deficiencies,” said Dorothy Robyn, commissioner of the GSA’s public buildings service. Only about 1.3 million square feet of the 2.1-million-square-foot building can be used for office space.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/house-debates-future-of-fbi-headquarters/2013/03/13/196f2f18-8c2e-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html

[aquart]

1. No debate. Can't afford it. Stay put, you money munchers.

[rightsideout]

2. Move it to Maryland!

There's plenty of space available and close to DC.

[davidthegnome]

3. Huh.

I'm sure glad they're working so hard to make the Country a better, safer place. Hope those poor shmucks have enough money for drones.

[valerief]

4. Yeah, starve the children, but get new digs for the 1% protectors. nt