Jay Inslee: “it truly is an achievement to obtain 100 percent screening of the checked baggage that goes into the belly of our…”

“it truly is an achievement to obtain 100 percent screening of the checked baggage that goes into the belly of our airplanes to assure that there will be no explosives. I want to thank for that achievement the families of the Lockerbie victims who, since 1988, have been urging Congress to take this step, and specifically, Bob Monetti, who lost his son Rick in the Lockerbie bombing; George Williams, who lost his soldier son Geordie, who has done just great advocacy in the halls of this House to finally achieve this step forward. I hope they take satisfaction from that achievement. I also would like to thank the bipartisan group that worked to make sure that we had 100 percent screening: the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Shays) on the Republican side, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Markey), the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Strickland), the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Dunn). I want to thank the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. Oberstar) and the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), who have been advocates of this for a long, long period of time. I want to thank the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young), who I hope takes some sense of achievement from this. I think he should.”