In short. ATSP is nothing more than a tool that can help CBP determine who might be a person worthy of a followup interview. Again. since we are already using this technology to screen international incoming flights. why not apply it to border crossings of trains and buses. other forms of transportation through which terrorists might try to enter the country? Why not? That was the gist of my amendment. Once more. however. the majority on the Rules Committee shot us down. Together. APIS and the ATSP make up the building blocks of exactly the kind of border security program recommended by the 9/11 Commission. and yet this rule prohibits our consideration of these two programs as part of our mass transit and rail security structure. The majority can talk the talk when it comes to adopting the 9/11 Commission recommendations. but by failing to implement these two amendments. it has shown that it cannot walk the walk. Accordingly. while I know that this legislation.
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