Would federal policy more reflective if the US Capitol were periodically moved?

I heard a someone mention once that they felt to a large degree federal policy including everything from legislative initiatives to court rulings were often unduly influenced by the cultural climate of Washington, DC and vicinity. Their solution: periodically relocate certain federal government operations to different cities in America based on a combination bidding process similar to how Olympic host cities are chosen and then lottery for qualifying communities. Cities across America would line up because of the economic boom created by having the legislative branch of government, support staff, their families as well as the US Supreme Court and its entourage and a news media corps relocate there and financed by the local communities as an investment in the economy.

In the meantime, DC would still have a vibrant economy as the executive branch would stay there as well as some operational facilities necessary to interact with the White House. Other buildings can be converted to museums and/or annexed by area universities. For people living there, fewer people would need to commute 50 to 100 miles round trip every day, something common of the DC workforce due to a lack of housing.

In the era of 21st century communications, having the various branches of the federal government within a short ride by horseback is no longer required. Best of all, government policy in theory will be less influenced by the social pressures of the DC cultural climate as every 4 years the government adopts a new home; Huntsville, then maybe Detroit, then Scottsdale, then Colorado Springs, then Honolulu, etc.

I don't really think this would help. I'm not really sure the government is all that influenced by the city of DC itself. I imagine moving the capital would be incredibly expensive and all the temporary benefits to a city would go away after four years.

It sounds like a horrible idea, you essentially force people out of work every four years and I doubt Congress themselves would like to have to move around. Not to mention you would have to build new buildings every four years then abandon them. At the very most do what South Africa does and have each branch in a different city.

Absolutely ****ing not!

The last thing we need is even more spending moving elements of the Federal Government around every 4 years. Just an asinine idea that would be plagued with costs, manipulations and fraud, squabbling politicians arguing about where they would go next, brokered order of moving based on who is in power, States going back and forth, and all sorts of bull****.

This might rank as one of the worst ideas of the year so far.

As others have said too expensive and I would guess that less would get done as they would be moving like that.

If there is too much cronyism in Washington the solution is to break it up. you choose your candidates who you believe would fight that and you diligently vote out the people don't.

I don't like the idea.

Do we really need a plan to increase the cost of the federal government for no apparent reason?

Maybe we should move it every couple of months so that only illegal aliens will apply.