John Mica: “Unfortunately, the TSA bureaucracy has mushroomed since 9/11 from a workforce of 16,500 to 62,000 employees today. The…”

“Unfortunately, the TSA bureaucracy has mushroomed since 9/11 from a workforce of 16,500 to 62,000 employees today. The purpose of my amendment is my concern about the growth and administrative overhead--a huge number of personnel. TSA has more employees than the Department of State, the Department of Education and Labor, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development combined. Now listen to this: TSA headquarters, which is within a few miles of where we're standing, has 3,776--latest count--administrative bureaucrats employed, and 27 percent are supervisors of them. The average pay of these 3,700-plus bureaucrats here is $105,000. Having helped create TSA in the aftermath of 9/11, I can tell you we never intended to support this kind of bureaucracy. Now listen to this: if you think the bureaucracy in Washington is bad, there are 9,233 non-screener employees at the airports across the country. There are only 400 airports in the program.”