The General Services Administration is moving ahead with plans to build a new $322 million courthouse in Los Angeles despite objections from key lawmakers.
GSA issued a request for qualifications Jan. 20 for a 600,000-square-foot courthouse to be finished no later than March, 2016.
Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on public buildings, said in a statement there was already enough space in existing Los Angeles courthouses.
"GSA knows this project is unnecessary, which is why they are making a mad dash to spend the money now," Denham said.
Denham and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., the ranking member of the subcommittee, sent a letter Oct. 21 asking GSA not to begin construction on the courthouse.
Rep. John Mica, Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, called the new courthouse project "idiotic" and said in a statement that it was a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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