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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Defense Workers Tell Legislators They Won't Move
Residents Urged To Voice Objections

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post
June 21, 2005

Defense workers and contractors said yesterday that a Pentagon plan to 
shift 23,000 military jobs from inside the Capital Beltway would prompt 
skilled workers to abandon government employment before disrupting their 
families' lives.

At a town meeting attended by about 300 people at George Mason 
University's law school in Arlington, every person who queued up to 
speak opposed the provision within the Defense Department's national 
streamlining plan, with several saying it would hamper the military's 
mission and raise costs by triggering a "brain drain" of employees now 
working in leased office space in Arlington County and Alexandria near 
the department's Pentagon headquarters.

The Pentagon's plan was announced last month and cited economic and 
security reasons for consolidating jobs away from Washington and its 
close-in suburbs.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001248.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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