Bill Nelson: “Everybody in America wants the most proficient, the most trained, the most expert, and well-paid people doing the…”

“Everybody in America wants the most proficient, the most trained, the most expert, and well-paid people doing the adequate and professional and thorough job of screening people when they go through those checkpoints. If that means federalizing, then we ought to be getting about the business of the American public and passing this legislation and moving it. I want to add a comment and also another compliment to the Senator, our chairman. Over the weekend I visited two ports in Florida. I visited, on Friday, the Port of Pensacola. In the warehouse there, I found a huge load of sacked flour that was going to Tadzhikistan. Fortunately, those 100-pound sacks of flour were red, white, and blue so people would know where it was coming from--the USA. That is what we need to do if we are going to try to win the hearts and minds of people as we have had such tremendous success doing in North Korea, a Communist dictatorship. The food we have sent in there is in these red, white, and blue sacks so people know where it is coming from--the USA. So I was very gratified to see that.”