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GSA: No New Leases For Now, Panel Says

A House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee chairman has told the General Service Administration’s Public Buildings Service that the panel will not approve any new GSA leases until the agency provides more information about its leased and owned properties, including those on which GSA loses money.

At a March 10 hearing, subcommittee Chairman Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) criticized GSA, which has many surplus properties. “Given the financial crisis facing our country, we must reduce the amount of money we spend to house federal employees,” he said.

PBS Commissioner Robert Peck said he would provide the data Denham is seeking. GSA’s 2012 budget request includes $840 million for construction and acquisition and $869 million for repairs and alterations.

Pam Hunter McFarland was a Senior Editor of ENR and her expertise was: Sourcebooks, Environment, Labor

As ENR's former Washington Bureau Chief, Tom Ichniowski wrote about the federal government since the George H.W. Bush administration, and covered at least five major highway bills. A recognized expert on government policy on infrastructure and regulation, Tom is also a Baltimore native and Orioles fan who grew up rooting for Brooks and Frank Robinson. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, where he once used “unrelentless” in a headline.

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