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“I thank the gentleman. It provides a waiver for the existing law that requires a private screening company contracted will be owned and controlled by a citizen of the United States, meaning that it waives the fact that you have to be a United States citizen to provide security for those who are traveling. And it requires--it says you ``must'' privatize some of these airports. Did we learn from 9/11? So besides the poison pill on labor, counting people who don't even show up to vote, now we have a situation where we are forcing our Nation's airports to privatize their security. I ask my colleagues to reflect on this challenge. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in opposition of H.R. 658, ``the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act.'' This bill would authorize appropriations, mainly over the 2011-2014 period, for activities of the Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, and other federal programs related to aviation. In addition, the measure contains intergovernmental and private- sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, UMRA, because it would impose new requirements on both public and private entities that own aircraft or airports. CB0 estimates that the aggregate cost of intergovernmental mandates in the bill would fall well below the annual threshold established in UMRA ($71 million in 2011, adjusted annually for inflation).…”