James Moran: “I cannot understand why we can be so nonchalant about what happened over the weekend. It should be a red flag. After…”

“I cannot understand why we can be so nonchalant about what happened over the weekend. It should be a red flag. After having debated an entire day and narrowly passing a bill at great contradiction with what the Senate passed 100 to nothing, deciding to give responsibility for the security of the people who fly in our Nation's airlines to the very same firms that are now responsible for that security. Apparently it was a victory for that industry, a $700 million a year industry. But look what happened over the weekend. The very firm that has already gotten fined over $1 million because they were not training their people, when the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation went to Dulles Airport, they found 87 percent of the people that had been hired by Argenbright, a British firm, I am sure they want to do the right thing, but they had hired 87 percent not U.S. citizens. It is almost impossible to do adequate background checks. A number of them will be illegal felons, and a number of them had not received any training. And yet we go back and we entrust the security of the people of the United States to these very same firms in the House bill. And then over the weekend we find this guy, this Indiana Jones character with knives, with stun guns, with mace getting on to a plane having gone through the same Argenbright security system, the same system to which the House would entrust the security of the public that wants to use our airlines.”