transportation security administration

TSA Anti-Groping Bill

The House of Representatives did not pass the controversial Transportation Security Administration Anti-Groping bill after parliamentary failures to suspend the rules for a third and final reading Wednesday morning.

The bill would have criminalized intentional, inappropriate touching by an airport security screener.

The House needed 120 members to vote to suspend the rules for the final reading, but stood at 96-26, effectively killing the bill.

Tefillin:

S: (n) phylactery, tefillin ((Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer)

Phylactery comes from the Greek verb φυλάσσειν which means to guard or to protect.

A parade of Obama administration national security officials appeared before several Senate panels Wednesday.

They were explaining how a 23-year-old Nigerian man with explosives sewn into his underwear boarded a flight to Detroit on Christmas Day.

And while the White House was dealing with questions from Senators, they were confronted with a new issue.

They now have to find another nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration.

President Obama's nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration has withdrawn from consideration. In a statement, Erroll Southers said he was pulling out because his nomination had become "a lightning rod" for those with a political agenda.

The White House says Obama accepts Southers' decision with great sadness.

While the technology to screen passengers has become more advanced and the check-in lines a little shorter, the question of whether flying is terrorism-proof remains.

The Transportation Security Administration touts its latest machinery, but critics call the screening process "security theater."

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This is way off-topic for me, I know, but I wrote this on Notepad while sitting on an airplane, so maybe you'll understand .

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