The FBI would be temporarily barred from spending additional money to move its Washington headquarters under bipartisan funding legislation, a reprieve for Maryland lawmakers who’ve pushed to relocate the law enforcement agency outside of the nation’s capital.
The legislation released Monday by senior Senate and House appropriators requires the FBI to furnish the Republican-controlled Appropriations Committees with complete architectural and engineering plans for its new headquarters before spending any unobligated funds from past Justice Department appropriations on construction of a new primary office in Washington.
“This is an important step to reassert Congress’s oversight role in the relocation of the ...