AgroPages-US Senator introduces bill to move all USDA agencies out of Washington DC-Agricultural news

BrownfieldAgNews reports:

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri has introduced legislation that would move most federal agencies out of Washington, D.C. including the entire Department of Agriculture. Two USDA research agencies have already been moved to Kansas City but many employees chosen not to move.

Hawley said on Fox News last week that D.C.-based departments are too removed from the rest of America.

"Look, if they don't want to go to Missouri, that's fine. They don't have to work for USDA. But there are lots of folks in the Midwest, in the Kansas City region, and all over my state who would love to have these jobs! Let them compete."

Hawley says his bill would relocate the federal agencies to economically distressed regions. The Republican proposes moving the Department of Education to Tennessee and the Energy Department to nearby Kentucky, among other relocations.