John Mica: “I think the ranking member, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), has pointed out that we looked at the tasks…”

“I think the ranking member, the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar), has pointed out that we looked at the tasks that have already been assigned to TSA and we said wait a minute, this agency was given much more than it can do, and usually when Government gets a program, it costs twice as much, takes twice as many employees and costs three times as much, and we are finding our prediction to be true, and some of my concerns about passing the full federalization without the private participation to also be accurate. We found already that TSA, just in a simple assignment, assigned 429 airport security directors. To my knowledge, they have only named about four dozen, about 48.”