Bob Menendez: “It would be a large mistake for this body to kill this amendment, because it enables our airport security personnel to…”

“It would be a large mistake for this body to kill this amendment, because it enables our airport security personnel to keep Americans safer. One of the biggest threats we have now as a nation is we are beginning to forget 9/11 and what happened and what could happen. We are forgetting we are under a constant threat, that we live under alerts every day. It is not a matter of saying one day is an emergency and one day is not. It is not a matter of saying one passenger is an imminent threat but the other one might not be. Our transportation security agency is charged with making sure we screen every passenger, every bag, and that we have an alert system based on intelligence and other information that allows them to move toward possible threats.”