Return to Article: GSA seeks funding boost for DHS headquarters project
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43138
How appropriate to put DHS headquarters in a former insane asylum. I hope the Secretary gets the Hinckley suite. What a collossal waste of money. If they move the DHS HQ there in beautiful S.E. Washington in a high crime neighborhood with inadeqauate parking for employees, no direct mass transit and no places to eat, people will quit in droves. I hope Congress zeros out the request.
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43126
This relly aggrevates the traffic situation in DC, the headquaters should be placed in WVA or western part of VA. That way there won't be any complaints about traffic and commute times
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43110
Good comments Paul D. However, continuity of operations in DHS is an oxymoron.
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43109
We are in the new DOT building that was "approved" by GSA. We can tell you first-hand that GSA does not know what it is doing, and is wasting Federal $$.
There is a lot of wasted space, the atriums are to serve as meeting space, but the acoustics are terrible. The building is not compliant with accessibility guidelines, so all the (very heavy) fire doors are propped open so that employees with disabilities can get in and out of common areas, the entrance ramp is too steep, etc. It will cost a fortune to fix all the problems.
So much for GSA oversight!
(I also agree with Paul D. that locating all of DHS is one place is not a good security decision.)
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43095
How appropriate that the proposed site for DHS headquarters used to be a mental health institution. St. Elizabeth's could probably be reopened in order to try to heal the federal employees abused and degraded by DHS. So Congress can save $3 billion by vetoing the new DSHS HQ building and disbanding and redistributing DHS back to its original legacy agencies. I can't imagine that the Shrub will need $2.2 million for his library of one "comic" book and a part-time janitor!
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43084
Leave it to DHS to decide that putting all of their eggs in one basket will make the agency more secure. It seems to me that it is just condensed into a single high value target, and hence continuity of operations would be subject to compromise by an enemy that much more easily.
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43077
As if playing musical cubicles the past five years wasn't bad enough, now they want to move my job to another city, even if it is within the NCR? Believe me, DHS agencies will BLEED employees if this consolidation comes to fruition. Many of my co-workers are already dusting off and updating their resumes. But I'm sure Secretary Chertoff will sail to his office in his chauffered motorcade, lights flashing and sirens wailing, blowing through every red light on the way.
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