Thirdparty contractor. We recruit from all walks of life. I have people with ph. D. S who are front line screeners, who have retired and come back into the workforce. People with music degrees. All walks of life. As you might expect in a workforce of 44,000 screeners you have a broad range of people at all ages. One last question because my time is almost up. If we were to interview 100 folks who had left, not for calls but just left, what would be the dominant reason they cited . Either their expectations werent met or they lost interest. Why do folks leave . Well, ill give you some thoughts i have. Because i havent done those interviews myself. I think it is probably a combination effect. You always have some people who justify it is not their job for them and they move on. Lets address some of the concerns you have with morale. Not feeling like youre doing the mission you thought you would be hired to do. If im a screener and i think it is about effectiveness and screening properly
I think you would have been here. And we had to subpoena you in order to get you to come here. Mr. Pummill, you obviously were subpoenaed because miss hickey left her position, and i suspect that we may invite her to appear before us at a later date. But with that, if there are no further questions, we are now in recess. Coming up tonight remarks from president obama on the keystone xl pipeline and his administrations decision to reject the request from a Canadian Company to build it. He spoke earlier today at the white house and well show you a portion of those comments now. Several years ago the state department began a review process for the proposed construction of a pipeline that would carry Canadian Crude Oil through our heartland to ports in the gulf of mexico and out into the world market. This morning secretary kerry informed me that after extensive Public Outreach and consultation with other cabinet agencies, the state department has decided that the keystone xl pipeline woul
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Legislation did not go anywhere either. And to us, that was a bare minimum. Criticism from the Civil Rights Community and the Voting Rights community. We narrowed the bill until we excluded the states that were engaged, my state of being one of them. We were not covered. Alabama, where all of this started, is not going to be covered. What we did was we decided to use what the Supreme Court asked us to use it in a way that would and to state if you dont have any intentions to be mischievous, you shouldnt be worried about it. Do have any sense of where the new speaker stands on this . Have there been any discussions as an ally . Be seen the chairman as opposed to this idea across the board. Me speak or will shift the powers to the chairmanship. Howd do you get over that hurdle . Maybe they have spoken with him. I have not. I have not spoken to speaker ryan about this. I can tell you restoration tuesday is about educating the American People, informing the American People about this issue
Badges in airports. There has been some concerned that security of the bad population. It should be a trusted population. How do you determine whether they are to be trusted . What safeguards do you put in place, inc. Think there is work to be done there. Im encouraged by secretary johnsons reach, earlier this year prior to my confirmation, he asked the Aviation Security thatory Committee Members advised the department and the administrator, they took a hard look and came up with 28 recommendations, with which tsa is fully concurrent, and they are looking for an implementation plan. That said, it was a challenge. Having realtime access to the appropriate databases to screen people. That against the terrorist database. It taking off a lot of time to give me a little answer. Administrator neffenger the 73 members, 69 discrete individuals were not actually on the terrorist watch list. In what had incomplete is called a terrorist information data environment. That information was not suffi