senate Bill S. 1007
Should the Bureau of Land Management’s HQ be Closer to the Lands it Manages in the Western States?
Argument in favor
It makes no sense for the Bureau of Land Management to have its headquarters in Washington D.C. when 99% of the lands it manages are in the Western states. Relocating the HQ would give decision makers more insight into how their policies impact local communities.
05/04/2017
This bill, if passed, could not only save so much money but it could also allow for better decision making on the BLM's part. Let's relocate the BLM's office to where most of their area focus is! Many have even proposed it be in Grand Junction Colorado which would be great for this area!
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04/08/2018
It wasn’t until Teddy Roosevelt went west, to engage in the cattle business, that he had his first real contact with Native Americans. It changed his opinion and shifted his involvement with them. It was the “eyes on” first hand experience that influenced his decisions from those first encounters. Same holds true for land management bureaucrats. Eyes and hands on the land they’re charged with managing is important.
04/08/2018
Get the bureaucrats out of the swamp, and with the people who write their paychecks, and who are directly affected by their decisions.
Argument opposed
It doesn’t make a difference whether the Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters is located in Washington D.C. or one of the Western states. Moving the headquarters wouldn’t lead to better informed policymakers or lead to substantially decisions.
04/08/2018
This is a pointless bill. The BLM has plenty of regional offices in Western states. BLM headquarters should be in Washington D.C. because that’s where all the policymaking is happening. This bill is just a distraction and moving the HQ will be a waste of money.
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02/19/2018
Where they’re located doesn’t have anything to do with the decision making process. This is a complete waste of money.
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04/08/2018
The HQs should be in Washington DC because that is where the policy decisions are made.
This bill, if passed, could not only save so much money but it could also allow for better decision making on the BLM's part. Let's relocate the BLM's office to where most of their area focus is! Many have even proposed it be in Grand Junction Colorado which would be great for this area!
This is a pointless bill. The BLM has plenty of regional offices in Western states. BLM headquarters should be in Washington D.C. because that’s where all the policymaking is happening. This bill is just a distraction and moving the HQ will be a waste of money.
Where they’re located doesn’t have anything to do with the decision making process. This is a complete waste of money.
The HQs should be in Washington DC because that is where the policy decisions are made.
Why? In the 1960s this might’ve been a good idea when the Internet didn’t make communication nearly instantaneous, but in the modern world there’s literally no point. there are lots of branch offices and that’s fine. The Bureau of land management needs people in DC to do the political work.
It wasn’t until Teddy Roosevelt went west, to engage in the cattle business, that he had his first real contact with Native Americans. It changed his opinion and shifted his involvement with them. It was the “eyes on” first hand experience that influenced his decisions from those first encounters. Same holds true for land management bureaucrats. Eyes and hands on the land they’re charged with managing is important.
Get the bureaucrats out of the swamp, and with the people who write their paychecks, and who are directly affected by their decisions.
This would do nothing but cost taxpayers money. First, less than 25% of BLM employees work in DC. Then the ones that do are primarily interacting with other government agencies, Congress, and the President and would need to stay, thus creating a secondary "headquarters." This would just add cost to running the BLM while making it less efficient and effective.
This seems like a waste of time and resources. Creating satellite offices if those don’t already exist makes sense, but the Bureau should be close to the rest of policy-makers.
This is absurd. As though we are living in the 1800s and need to send telegrams via railroad to the western frontier. The BLM needs to maintain a DC office for budget talks, and this appears to be a ploy to weaken the agency in this regard.
SB 1007 is about disruption and distraction. Physically moving the BLM headquarters would be daunting, and the disruption to the people who work there, and their families, is unwarranted. The bureau has many satellite offices in the west. The HQ is fine where it is.
The distance from Washington would lessen their ability to influence policy makers.
No Constitutional authority for the BLM it needs to be down sized to an advisory capacity and have States manage their own public lands instead of federal bureaucrats in DC that are out of touch with the land their tasked to manage, it will save a lot of money and the State will be better stuarts and in touch with the land so it can be enjoyed more by people and wildlife.
State Governments should have the right to decide individually. Currently, the federal government seeks to control the people in ways that diminish political and civil liberties. 👺They are like a greedy old landlords who won't fix anything, don't provide protection (like smoke alarms and sprinklers) and then raise the rent sky high. 🤢Personally, I do NOT want Trump or any of his crooks anywhere near my state. They are doing enough damage from where they are. 👺Besides, we all know the federal government's headquarters is in Kansas, home to the Koch brothers.
No, the government should be centrally located. This is an attempt to decentralize our gov't. #Resist
No! Keep it where it is. This is an attempted power grab by Repugnacants in the West.
Land management should be left up to the states. What does Washington know? The constitution gave no such authority to the federal government.
The ranchers in the western states would then have influence and pressure to put on the Bureau and they have too much influence now!