House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has asked House Appropriations Committee Chairman Kay Granger (R-Texas) to withhold funds intended for the design and construction of a new FBI headquarters complex somewhere in the Washington suburbs.
But Mr. Jordan’s request doesn’t reflect a desire on his part to keep the FBI at its present location in the J. Edgar Hoover Building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in the nation’s capital. Rather, Mr. Jordan wants to move the United States’ premier law enforcement agency out of the Washington region entirely, perhaps to Alabama.
