Kay Bailey Hutchison: “we have just passed the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 2000. I am very pleased that we have been able, in a very…”

“we have just passed the Aviation Security Improvement Act of 2000. I am very pleased that we have been able, in a very bipartisan way, to pass this bill. I would like to just talk a little bit about how we came to pass the Aviation Security Act of 2000. Thanks to Senator Slade Gorton, the chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee, I was able to chair a hearing in which we heard from the FAA, particularly Admiral Flynn, about the state of our airport security. ``What is the state of our airport security?'' we asked. We wanted to know if we were doing everything we could to give our traveling public the most security possible. Admiral Flynn did a report and shared that with the Members of the Senate who came to the hearing. Every single Senator who attended the hearing became a cosponsor of the bill that we have just passed because there were some areas that we could clearly see needed to be made more strict, more stringent, just to make sure that we take every single measure we can to make our airports totally secure.”