Rep. Jordan: Relocating FBI HQ from Washington will remove politics from the agency.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Wants to Move FBI Headquarters Out of Washington

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is calling on House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas) to withhold funds for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters complex in the Washington suburbs.

However, Mr. Jordan’s request is not about keeping the FBI at its current location in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. Instead, he wants to relocate the premier law enforcement agency out of the Washington region, possibly to Alabama.

“The Committee remains concerned about the politicization of federal law enforcement power emanating from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The centralization of FBI operations in the National Capitol Region has led to duplication of activity best left to the respective field offices, contributed to reduced autonomy in local field offices, and allowed improper political influence to taint law enforcement investigations and activity,”

Mr. Jordan’s letter also directs the FBI to submit an operational plan within 90 days to move its headquarters out of the National Capital Region, considering the resources and infrastructure available at the FBI’s Redstone Arsenal Campus in Huntsville, AL.

This request regarding the FBI headquarters is just one of 39 funding actions sought by Mr. Jordan as the House of Representatives works on 12 appropriations bills before the Sept. 30 deadline.

If these bills are not sent to President Joe Biden for signature by then, the federal government may face a shutdown until the necessary funds are approved.

Among the other funding requests are measures to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from using tax dollars to investigate “politically sensitive” individuals unless career civil servants are in charge of such investigations.

“None of the funds made available by this Act or any other Act shall be used to conduct a politically sensitive investigation until the Department of Justice establishes a policy requiring non-partisan career staff to oversee such investigations. Politically sensitive investigations include those investigations of elected officials and their family members, political candidates and their family members, political organizations, religious organizations, and members of the media,”

Furthermore, Mr. Jordan proposes denying funding for labeling communications by United States persons as misinformation, disinformation, or mal-information.

Another request is to prohibit the use of tax dollars to pay any official who retaliates against a whistleblower or suppresses the constitutional rights of DOJ or FBI employees under the First Amendment.

Additionally, there is a request to prevent the DOJ from implementing a policy that discourages United States Marshals Service employees from fully enforcing laws against harassing or injuring Supreme Court justices.

Mr. Jordan is deeply concerned about the need for these funding actions.