Joni Ernst is taking some time out from twisting herself into a pretzel supporting a SecDef nominee who has a record of violence towards women to berate and threaten Federal workers.
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The same Joni Ernst who wrote a new version of the Violence Against Women Act to remove a provision that would help keep guns out of the hands of abusers? That one?
She needs to account for the cost of moving them, the cost of travel by people to DC when necessary and every damned penny congress and senators will spend traveling to those agencies. Not to mention NOT one of those new headquarters can go into IOWA. Or she will just be self serving.
She claims she is a combat veteran, yet I can find no instances of where is was actually in combat. It seems as if being in the "war zone" is enough to qualify as a "combat veteran ". I have also been in 2 "war zones" but have never and will never consider myself as a combat veteran.
Imagine making 4 times the median income of your constituents, receiving free healthcare, enjoying 25 weeks a year paid vacation, and telling other people they don’t work hard enough. I’ve hauled and pumped concrete since ‘93. I’ve had Wednesdays tougher than her entire life.
Didn’t it cost the government (I.e., us) over $1b the last time they tried and failed to move fed workers out of DC? Largely due to workers leaving, having to rehire, office space and other considerations?
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https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/files/2019-10/HIRE-Act-bill-text.pdf
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https://www.brookings.edu/articles/moving-federal-jobs-out-of-washington-could-work-if-its-done-correctly/
Master of the Game : Sen. Byrd’s Deals to Move Jobs to West Virginia Outrage Colleagues
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-09-vw-2047-story.html
Byrd’s efforts to move FBI and CIA facilities and thousands of jobs to West Virginia-
he was also looking at moving
S.S. from Baltimore to down here 900 acres bought for FBI
For the GOP, every accusation is a confession.
You ever talk to Marco Rubio, Joni? No? That's because he's never at work!