Political Quotes

“I want to thank Congressman Hurd for his leadership on this issue. I want to thank as well the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Payne), the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Thompson), and the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio) for helping us out on this, and certainly Chairman Michael McCaul. This answer by the TSA makes no sense from a security standpoint and hurts our smaller communities that may go from time to time without air service but clamor for air service. If you are a big airport and you lose a carrier, you probably have several others there serving the people of that area. If you are a small airport and you have one carrier, as is the case in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in June of 2014, when SkyWest pulled out, they had no other carriers, so they immediately began to seek additional air service. The city of Klamath Falls acted diligently. They recruited a new partner, Peninsula Airways, in July of 2015, so like a year later they had somebody in line and everything was working out. They go to TSA, and TSA says: No, we are not coming back. Their answer was to reverse screen. I said: Well, what is that? Well, that means you board the 28- or 30-passenger airplane with all your luggage, everything else, and then you fly--in this case 236 miles north to Portland, Oregon, Oregon's largest city--then you deplane on the tarmac, and you come back through like you had just driven up.…”