IRS, DEA: Out On the Street?

The Internal Revenue Service and the Drug Enforcement Administration are facing eviction from their quarters in downtown Buffalo, N.Y. The Buffalo News reports that Sen. Charles E. Schumer has signed on to the effort to force the General Services Administration to find new space for the two agencies so a planned $12 million restoration of the historic Guaranty Building in which they now reside can proceed. Hodgson Russ, a law firm that owns the building, says it has already extended the agencies' lease once, and now it looks like they won't be able to meet a July deadline to leave, either. Enough's enough, said Schumer, who has written a letter to GSA Administrator Lurita Doan asking her to personally intervene to deal with the situation.