John Shaw: “I do believe without question that the language is sufficiently tight. What we are talking about, people who are either…”

“I do believe without question that the language is sufficiently tight. What we are talking about, people who are either working in ports or apply for positions in ports, are going to get their background checked. I think the language is very clear that only the jurisdiction controlling the port can pull up this information and pull it up on these particular people. Right now, they can pull up the State records as in Broward County, they passed a county ordinance that required this. In Dade County, they have done the same. But now they can only get to the State records. We should have the same privilege that the Port of New York has and the Port of New Jersey, and that is to be able to tap into the Federal records. That is all this does. It certainly makes sense to have the honest people be the ones that are handling the cargo. They have the greatest opportunity to assist the drug smugglers and assist the drugs smuggled into this country, and we know that drugs are a huge problem. Mr. Chairman, I ask the approval of the amendment.”