"Thank you, Ms. Jackson Lee for being here, showing an interest in the subcommittee's work and for your thoughtful comments and input."
"I want to ask this question only because I have experienced it the last two times I have been at Kennedy Airport."
"Growth in PreCheckTM should not be at the expense of any of these core objectives, and I am concerned that several initiatives related to expansion of TSA PreCheckTM do not meet these criteria."
"TSA PreCheckTM has fundamentally changed the way Americans think about passenger screening in a post-9/11 world, and I believe it should continue expanding."
"TSA PreCheck has garnered a positive response from both passengers and transportation security industry stakeholders."
"TSA PreCheck has fundamentally changed the way Americans think about passenger screening in a post-9/11 world."
"for the people who have paid for the program, it is a negative."
"Transportation Security officers have the important responsibility of securing our Nation's aviation systems."
"That obviously raises a grave concern as to being able to do proper background checks of the individuals coming into the country."
"I applaud the efforts of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee in finding ways in which access controls at our Nation's airports can be further improved through the cooperation of TSA and industry ..."
"I am glad that we are here today to work on working out--not to decide whether or not there is a problem, we are way past that--how to fix it."