From a Michael Schaffer Capital City column on politico.com headlined “Republicans Want to Mandate A Single Style of Architecture in Washington”:

Should America’s government decree an official national architectural style? Should the nation’s capital only have public buildings modeled on ancient Athens or Rome?

The questions swirl around a reignited culture-war battle over an unlikely Beltway institution: The General Services Administration, the resolutely unsexy government agency that manages federal office buildings, U.S. courthouses and other bureaucratic outposts.