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It’s On: Rand Paul Plans Round 2 Against TSA
RESTORING LIBERTY
Sen. Rand Paul is not giving up his fight to get the government off the front lines of airport security.
The Kentucky Republican said in an interview that he plans to refile legislation that would drastically scale back the Transportation Security Administration’s reach by privatizing security screening operations at airports and creating a series of passenger protections.
“I think we are going to,” Paul said when asked if he would take another crack at the oft-criticized agency. “We have two different bills, one to privatize the TSA and then we have another one which is a passenger bill of rights.”
As a policy, the TSA does not comment on proposed legislation. It declined to comment on Paul’s plans.
For Paul, TSA reform is personal. He drew viral media attention for resisting a TSA pat-down in 2012, which caused him to miss a speech at the March for Life rally. Following that incident, Paul introduced TSA privatization and flier bill of rights legislation last summer.
Stevo
February 2nd, 2013
First step: Change the the name of the agency to the Federal Air Transportation Airport Security Service.
It’s a more appropriate acronym.
Blink
February 2nd, 2013
Any new name would beat the current name and mission statement, which are currently conveniently combined in to one :
Transportation-system Sexual-assault Administration.