I am deeply troubled by recent allegations of contractor malfeasance as it relates to the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) use of backscatter Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT).

I want to say we, the committee, were in possession of information that provided by the intelligence community that pretty much said this was a military style attack within less than 24 hours.

I want to say that we the committee were in possession of information that, provided by the intelligence community, that pretty much said this was a military style attack within less than 24 hours.

This committee exists solely for the purpose of preventing that from ever happening again.

If you are not able to fire people for stealing under that new contract we are going to have a problem.

In Americans' minds, TSA represents everything wrong about the Federal Government; bloated in bureaucracy.

Michele Bachmann is kind of taking the lead of this particular issue and going through and trying to figure out what they took out of the training materials and what they left in and why did it get changed?

Michele Bachmann is kind of taking the lead on this particular issue and going through and trying to figure out what they took out of the training materials and what they left in and why did it get changed?

It has been my assessment that we have got about one-third of the TSA that could be reduced, as far as personnel size, and still do the job as efficiently.

the public does not have confidence in the TSA.

there is a reason we can be doing that with other airlines too.

Giving up on TSA without having something better to fill its place is not an option.

You have got Donald Rumsfeld getting patted down at the airport; Henry Kissinger, you know, that is just mind-numbing that that kind of stuff is happening.

Letting TSA carry on the way it has for the last 11 years is equally not an option.

Supreme Court justices have no business going through--maybe after the ruling 2 weeks ago, but they have no business going through that.

I am convinced we need to undertake a major reform to the Federal Government's role in our airports.

I think everybody has pretty much acknowledged that TSA's got, at a minimum, some perception problems and more accurately, some organizational problems that need to be addressed.

One of the things that I have heard consistently from the public is their complaint about the large number of people who seem to be not doing anything.

I try not to waste your time, and I hope you will have your committee make sure they don't waste our time, because it is disrespectful.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here today, and I appreciate your time and energy in preparing for today's hearing.

The public is just outraged by what they see with TSA and a lot of the wasteful money that has been spent in the past.

This Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Transportation Security will come to order.

At this point, I think CAT/BPSS is a Band-aid measure to solving a complex problem.

While CAT/BPSS may assist Transportation Security Officers in detecting fraudulent or invalid IDs and boarding passes, there are a number of weaknesses with this technology that call into question the benefit of deploying up to 1,400 units.

Half the Congress wants to just get rid of the department, because they think it is useless.