Jay Inslee: “I think we are going to be successful without too much debate improving cockpit security in response to the last…”

“I think we are going to be successful without too much debate improving cockpit security in response to the last tragedy. There seems to be momentum here in Congress to do that. But we cannot just fight the last battle, the last act of terrorism. We have got to be thinking ahead of the terrorists. We have got to be ahead of the wave of terrorism. We have got to think about the next potential act. And if we are going to take away nail clippers from passengers, we certainly ought to be getting the bombs out of the baggage in the belly of the jets. That is what this bill will do. I really appreciate the gentleman from Illinois joining us tonight. I now want to yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett). I want to note something before the Representative speaks. We did a $15 billion assistance, or bailout, depending on your perspective, of the airline industry a couple of weeks ago, and the gentleman from Texas asked some very, very good, salient questions about the use of that taxpayer money. It concerned many of us, because in that assistance package to the airline industry, and I believed some was appropriate given the nature of the need for this infrastructure, critical infrastructure, we did not require the airlines to do anything, to provide additional security.”