Haley Stevens: “I am reliably informed the reason it went to the Commerce Committee in the first place was the Senator from Arizona…”

“I am reliably informed the reason it went to the Commerce Committee in the first place was the Senator from Arizona wrote a memorandum for the Parliamentarian saying that is where it should be, in the Commerce Committee, because we have jurisdiction over all the means of transportation and all of the entities TSA deals with. Now, the Senator's committee--I am a member of that committee--will not have jurisdiction over railroads, trains, buses, boats, all of the entities that TSA affects. TSA has moved into the facilities owned by those entities. They have not built their own buildings; they have moved into those occupied by the airlines, buses, wherever. The conflict we have to resolve is between TSA and entities that provide the transportation. Now, if we are going to have a consolidation of jurisdiction, that is why we have done this, that is why the Senator from Arizona wrote the memorandum in the first place, because we have the jurisdiction over the means of transportation.”