Done . No sir, that, that is not my testimony. We are checking to tsa itself has increased the number of the inspection of the place by fivefold just in the last five months. We do that ourselves. You dont have enough resources. You have to get the airports to do it. And they are doing that, airport by airport. Will give us the report. Thats coming your way. I wanted to give you good specifics from the vulnerabilities system that we conducted so i could give you specific answers airport by airport to exactly the question youre asking. Those are all do this week as the deadline for getting those inches will compile them and get it to the committee. Why havent that been done in time to report to this committee . That was such an obvious question that you are going to be asked westmark. I think the answer i would have that is i did not have, i felt adequate specifics to satisfy this committee on the specific measure taken. That is why we went back and i ordered a very specific Vulnerabili
Updated its concept of operations to focus on riskbased deployments. The question is, have the events of the last two months since the budget was released convinced the administration that doubling of the vipr program is needed to address current threats . I appreciate the Attention Congress is giving to tsa resources and i will tell you this, mr. Chairman, if i were to receive more vipr teams, i would be aible to put them to use you an put them to use across the transportation system. I would be able to deploy them more effectively with our partners in the surface world and would deploy them to more public areas of our aviation environment. Let me just ask one last question here in the year past year and a half, we have seen repeated abuses of airport cita badges that grant airport workers access to secure areas of the airport, badges used by airport and Airline Workers to bypass tsa checkpoints in this case facilitate criminal activities like gun and drug smuggling. These incidents r
Is to get one agreement with one group of employees, which we do by having one union. Its a democratic process. The employees get to pick that union. And because its a democratic process, almost its almost guaranteed that not everyone will agree with all the positions that are taken by the union that represents the majority of employees. From the employers point of view, we need to get a contract, is to have one representative that can speak with one voice for all those disparate people. Now, i understand that youll be speaking on delicate issues. And the important point here is that outside the context of getting a contract, we do not try to suppress at all the wide or enriched variety of viewpoints that employees may have as citizens. And they can express them in the legislative realm. They can express them at the workplace, just not in the bargaining room. Justice kennedy do union do unions have Public Relations programs of or newspaper articles, media programs to talk about things
T. S. A. And for the men and women on t. S. A. s front lines and i look forward to your questions. Thank you, administrator neffenger. As you mentioned, and of course you were there, the brussels attack was directed at aviation infrastructure but it wasnt just an attack on that. It was also the metro car as we mentioned between stations which killed 13 people and injured a lot more. Rail and transit are very open systems, much like the nonsterile areas of airports and could easily be perceived as soft targets. What have you, or i should say how have you communicated with surface transportation operators about the potential for a brussels like attack on a u. S. Transportation system and do you believe that transit systems and passenger railroads in particular are prepared for an attack like the tragic events in brussels . Mr. Chairman, thank you for that question. That is a question thats been op everyones mind, certainly since the brussels attacks. I will tell it yous been our minds fo
Activities committee used to hold its hearings. In 1939 there was a man in harold s. Johnson who testified. In the height of the red scare, he denied he was a member of the communist party and went on to give an impassioned statement aret how american negroes patriotic americans. That those who seek a change in arepolicy or way of life not against the government itself. That man was my grandfather. [applause] know theiront history are bound to repeat it. Thank you all for participating in this very important mission. Thank you for service to your country, to your countries in this effort. We, at the department of Homeland Security, look forward to continue to work with you on this very important project. Thank you all very much. [applause] mr. Secretary, unlikely openingday pitches, today you through a 100 mile an hour fastball right on the plate. Write down the plate. Right down the plate. Thank you very much. [applause] cincinnati. Com writes that Governor John Kasich is taking a bre