[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18788]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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 FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER TRAINING FLIGHT DECK OFFICERS 
                         IN THE USE OF FIREARMS

  (Mr. PEARCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, I traveled with the 
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure to my district, to Artesia, New 
Mexico, where the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is engaged in 
training Federal flight deck officers for carrying firearms on 
aircraft.
  Mr. Speaker, that is a policy that this House passed and that the 
President signed and has now implemented, and I can say that our 
traveling public is much safer because of the professional training 
that is being received by people who are flying our aircraft. They are 
screened psychologically, they are screened in many other ways, so that 
after they come out of that facility, they come out able to defend the 
safety of the people on their aircraft at all cost, even up to and 
including the use of firearms.
  Mr. Speaker, the terrorists should be aware of that. We have trained 
thousands and will continue training thousands more in my district. I 
would like to commend the people at the Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico.

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