Rep. Moran, Others Urge GSA to Move FBI to Northern Virginia
Lawmakers ask GSA to consider the area, noting that many FBI employees already live in Northern Virginia.
Rep. Jim Moran (D-8th) along with several other lawmakers sent a letter to the administrator of the General Services Administration urging him to consider Northern Virginia as a possible home for a new FBI headquarters location. Moran, whose district includes Alexandria, was joined by Reps. Frank Wolf, Gerry Connolly and Rob Wittman as well as Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner in signing the letter. Their letter follows GSA’s request for information seeking input on a new location for a consolidated FBI headquarters in the Washington, DC region. In their letter to GSA Acting Administrator Daniel Tangherlini, the lawmakers asked GSA to undertake a qualitative “source selection” procurement, rather than cost-only process, noting that Northern …
MSandyDogg
12:42 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012
I'd prefer to see the FBI stay in DC -- it is the federal city. But, if Moran is correct that a majority of the FBI workers live in Virginia, locating the HQ in a good location in Vrginia (e.g., away from Tysons, near a Metro) potentially diminishes traffic, rather than increases it. (Workers would be going to against traffic flow, not taking transportation into DC.) Further, locating in Maryland… more ›