John Mica
John Mica
John Luigi Micais a businessman, consultant, and Republican politician representing Florida's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 January 1943
CountryUnited States of America
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What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.
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Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.
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Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.
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It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.
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When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
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Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
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We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.
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What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.
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We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.
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I think this is mostly our responsibility, ... but also it's something that we might require as standard operating equipment on new, large aircraft that would be at risk.
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We have the votes to pass the House,
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David Gunn bucked that idea, so that was the straw that broke the camel's back, ... He's a very capable operational manager, but he wasn't willing to go along with the dramatic changes that need to be made.
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Take down one commercial airliner in the West, and you're looking at absolute devastation ... So we're trying to take a different approach, a proactive approach, and move this forward. We can't afford not to.
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Slovakia's joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.