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• AFGE Calls Senate Bill To Relocate 10 Departments A ‘Solution In Search Of Problem’ - October 25, 2019
• By David Thornton, Federal News Network
  
  
  A newly introduced Senate bill would require the relocation of 10 departments and 90% of their Washington, D.C.-based employee positions to economically distressed areas of the country by 2033. But the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal employee union, refuted one assertion being used to justify the bill, and called it in a statement “a solution in search of a problem.”
  
  
  The Helping Infrastructure Restore the Economy (HIRE) act, introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on Oct. 23 and cosponsored by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), would require the following departments to relocate to the indicated states:
  
  
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