[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 79 (Wednesday, May 18, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S2996]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4049. Mr. FLAKE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3896 proposed by Ms. Collins (for herself, Mr. Kirk, Mr. 
Reed, and Mr. Tester) to the bill H.R. 2577, making appropriations for 
the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and 
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in division A, insert the 
     following:
       Sec. __.  It is the sense of Congress that, during the 
     pending summer travel season, the Transportation Security 
     Administration should use all existing resources and 
     technology to increase the efficiency of security screening 
     at airports while preserving a high level of security, 
     including by--
       (1) redeploying behavior detection officers to staff the 
     travel document checker position and putting the travel 
     document checkers at screening checkpoints to perform 
     screening functions;
       (2) redeploying divest officers to screening checkpoints to 
     perform screening functions and accepting the voluntary 
     assistance of airports or air carriers with queuing and 
     encouraging passengers to properly divest;
       (3) providing Federal security directors the ability to 
     make local decisions about manpower resource allocation 
     without having to consult with Transportation Security 
     Administration headquarters;
       (4) immediately disseminating to airports and Federal 
     security directors the best practices developed during the 
     optimization team visits;
       (5) using passenger screening canines to their greatest 
     benefit in terms of both volume and mitigating excessive 
     screening checkpoint wait times;
       (6) conducting local training of transportation security 
     officers until after the busy summer travel season;
       (7) ensuring predictable and consistent operating hours for 
     the PreCheck program and immediately initiating a marketing 
     blitz highlighting the program and its benefits in 
     coordination with airports;
       (8) reassigning all available administrative and regulatory 
     personnel to support passenger and baggage screening 
     operations;
       (9) moving available part-time screeners to full-time for 
     the summer; and
       (10) adopting an online enrollment process for the PreCheck 
     program.
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