Barbara Boxer

I am very concerned about Sacramento. I think Sacramento has been neglected.

I think we are very confident we will not have a problem here in LA, but that was a little disconcerting.

We cannot live with that type of performance.

I think it is very important because when Secretary Mineta said, well, those are the old folks--old folks, new folks, some people do not care.

We had to send our troops to Afghanistan. No one wanted to go.

The problems you are describing are not going to get away that easily.

The 40 or 41 percent failure rate.

The public is more forgiving than you seem to think in your testimony.

I am going to fight against changing the law.

Do you agree that there is a 30 percent failure rate?

So we have a disagreement on the failure rates. How do you base your numbers, Mr. Martin?

Now, what happens if the machines that we all want, the big machines, find something that is questionable?

So in other words, when you do the hand searches, the passenger is always there?

I mean, my question is, why does the passenger have to be there when you do the trace, even with a third of the problems?

I said, what is the rate? What is the percentage failure?

If the problem is--and let me just take this to Mr. Stone--if the problem is, in terms of the movement, that there are all these passengers around, I just want to ask you this question.

What is the false alarm rate?

Wait a minute. When you check your bag in and it goes through a different check, you are not there with the bag. What's the privacy problem?

They need to have some attention paid over there.

They had a 41 percent failure rate----

I just do not accept it, and I just want to push a little harder on the point.

Smaller international airports, they do not get the attention.

I understand. But that is the purpose of this hearing, to make it better, to keep the focus on.

Absolutely. It is huge.

Well, I am very happy to hear that, Mr. Stone, because the prior folks were fairly close, but I think Admiral Loy--and I met with him, and I am very impressed.