John Mica

That worries me, I believe that is still.

I think it is in Afghanistan, maybe some other post.

How about if we put in law that we just adopt the Canadian standard?

I have seen people in tears at TSA lines because their ticket doesn't match their ID exactly.

It is a simple thing that your form should, if you are producing all of these Global Entry documents, that they should match the passport.

I expect, and we will haul you back in here, that we get a pilot's license that meets the intent of the law.

Doesn't the original law that I passed say that, in fact, you would have to have biometric capability?

What the hell were they going to use it for?

We put it in the law because they hadn't done it in the beginning, and he says, well, and then he says we never contemplated that this could be used for an ID.

But, again, unless we have some check.

My God, technical hurdles? We asked for this after 2001, and they were working on it.

The only pilots on this license produced to this date are Wilbur and Orville Wright, certifiably dead.

It almost defies reason that we could go this long, not produce a card that could be used.

So say by September 1st these agencies should have some standard to go by?

The TWIC card does not have full biometric dual capability; it has some fingerprint capability.

I have 500 buildings on 7,000 acres the size of Key West just a few miles from here in Beltsville, Maryland, sitting idle.

We are going bankrupt to the tune of $17 trillion. It's only been temporarily curtailed.

Tough times require tough measures. Now, you sent a group here, there are some new members along our dais here who are intent on cutting, and they have actually forced cuts.

We can't agree on moving forward. You have a split House and Senate.

There is no way in hell you're going to pass your bill, Mr. Walker, your proposal.

Do we need a law with teeth in it to make certain that these things get done?

So you really didn't look at that aspect as one, just in general, you looked at the failure to comply with getting the bad actors out of the process?

But obviously people aren't reporting, contracts are being given and hundreds of millions of dollars to bad players, is that correct?

They have the ability and can administratively go after some of these things.

This is another one of these groundhog attempts by government where we keep going back and back and trying to clean this up and nothing is done.