"Congress has set no penalties. We haven't held the agency's feet to the fire."
"You need to be vetting your personnel. We have got report after report, the ones that were just released, they are not vetting their people."
"The private sector can screen and they do it well. They perform even better, I am absolutely convinced on the covert screening that I have seen and the reports I have had back."
"It is unacceptable that taxpayer funds are wasted on such unnecessary duplication of efforts."
"They built a huge bureaucracy--do you still have 4,000 people around Washington, DC, making, on average, $103,000 apiece?"
"Every study we have had--y'all--we just had--I have TSA oversight on my Transportation Subcommittee assignment. We just had a hearing at the full committee level, and the IG GAO came in and said almos..."
"But you need to get out of this Mickey Mouse business, let someone else do the screening, set the standards, conduct the audits."
"We are going to lose this effort if we continue to put the money into a huge bureaucracy."
"This is outrageous. In this case, TSA's blatant disregard for private-federal screening has unfairly resulted in a 7 percent increase in the cost of private screening operations compared to federal sc..."
"It is not done at any cheaper wages or benefits. That is all baloney, okay? Because we require that."
"TSA sent their goons down and intimidated this airport director--and they have done that around the country--"