Jay Inslee: “how stimulated do we think the U.S. economy will be if the terrorists blow up a couple more airplanes in the sky and…”

“how stimulated do we think the U.S. economy will be if the terrorists blow up a couple more airplanes in the sky and nobody gets on airplanes because the U.S. Congress has sat around on its duff for 6 weeks and has not done a single thing about airline safety? When my colleagues get on their airplane this weekend to get home, I can tell them one thing for sure: 90 percent of the bags on the airplane that they get on that go into the belly of that airplane will not be checked for an explosive device. For 42 days, what have we been able to accomplish to do something about that? Nothing. Now, we tried to put a provision in this bill in the Committee on Rules to make an investment in the machines that are capable of finding these explosive devices. I will ask my colleagues, although we may lose this vote today, I hope my colleagues will go to their leadership and tell them that we should get an airline safety bill up for a vote this week, because I do not think they will be proud going up to your constituents this weekend and say I cared more about the financial security of these corporations than I did about the airline safety of these passengers.”