[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 20646]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                  AMERICA NEEDS AIRLINE SECURITY BILL

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, we need an airport security bill. 
This is not a partisan issue. I share completely the views of my 
colleague, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), who is the chairman 
of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judiciary that 
appropriates money.
  Mr. Speaker, we know what happened a few years ago in Northern 
Virginia. A Pakistani by the name of Mir Aimal Kasi walked up to 
several people sitting in line to turn in to the CIA, and brutally 
murdered them. Reached in with an assault weapon and killed them. It 
took years, but we found him. His roommate was a baggage screener at 
Dulles Airport. 87 percent of these people hired by Argenbright, who 
does the baggage screening at National Airport and Dulles Airport, are 
not U.S. citizens.
  How can we do a background check on someone who is not a U.S. 
citizen, and many are illegal aliens, and they are doing the passenger 
and baggage screening at our airports? It is not working. The airlines 
have looked for the bottom line, the cheapest people who will work for 
the least amount of money. We need to federalize and professionalize 
them.

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