FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday March 26, 2015
CONTACT: Jon Conradi
PHONE: 202-225-2711
Email: jon.conradi@mail.house.gov
Congressman Mooney Calls for Rejection of President’s Plan to Relocate Jefferson County Based Training Program
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Alex Mooney submitted an appropriations letter to protect roughly two hundred Eastern Panhandle jobs and prevent $400 million in wasteful federal government spending.
Currently, the federal government conducts training at the Summit Point Raceway in Jefferson County for Foreign Service security personal. The program supports approximately 175 jobs. President Obama’s budget calls for that training to be moved to a new location in Virginia to be housed in a new $400 million facility.
“The President proposes to build a new $400 million facility to house a training program already being effectively administered at Summit Point in Jefferson County. This is exactly the kind of wasteful attitude towards taxpayer funds which has created a debt crisis in our nation.”
“This training program is flourishing in Jefferson County and these jobs should stay right here in the Eastern Panhandle.”
The full letter, addressed to Chairwoman Kay Granger of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, is included below:
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