Homeland Security Democrats to TSA: The 100% Screening Air Cargo Law Means All Cargo...

Homeland Security Democrats to TSA: The 100% Screening Air Cargo Law Means All
Cargo Must Be Screened

WASHINGTON, July 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In response to the
Transportation Security Administration telling the Subcommittee on
Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection on July 15 that air
cargo originating abroad would not be screened, Committee on Homeland Security
Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Subcommittee on Transportation Security
and Infrastructure Protection Chairwoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) and
Democratic Members of the Subcommittee sent a letter to Kip Hawley, Assistant
Secretary and Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, to
reiterate that, notwithstanding TSA's interpretation of the law, the screening
of 100 percent of air cargo was mandated by Section 1602 of the Implementing
Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-53).

To view the letter, go to:
http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20080731121758-75682.pdf

SOURCE Committee on Homeland Security

Dena Graziano or Adam Comis, +1-202-225-9978, both of Committee on Homeland
Security