National Journal By: Priscilla Alvarez A report from Homeland Security Department Inspector General John Roth that revealed gaps in the Transportation Security Administration's security procedures has the House Homeland Security subcommittee on transportation security uneasy. "Terrorists only have to be right once. To defend ourselves, we have to be right 100 percent of the time. Millions of travelers pass through our nation's airports every year, and we need to know the systems in place will p...
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Homeland Security Today By Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief In response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) audit that disclosed US airline passengers may have been in potential jeopardy to terrorist attacks for nearly a decade “because the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has not properly been managing the maintenance of its airport screening equipment,” Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice, ranking member of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Transpor...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice, Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee’s Transportation Security Subcommittee, released the following statement today in response to media reports that in recent covert tests conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at several of the nation’s busiest airports, undercover investigators posing as airline passengers successfully smuggled fake explosives and banned weapons past Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...
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Undercover investigators posing as legitimate airline passengers for TSA and the IG also managed to smuggle fake explosives and other prohibited weapons through checkpoints in 95 percent of trials, the IG reported.
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By Rashed Mian Long Island Press The U.S. House of Representatives this week voted overwhelmingly to reign in the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of Americans’ phone data—a measure that received full support from Long Island’s Congressional delegation. All five of LI’s Representatives backed the so-called USA Freedom Act, including staunch NSA defender Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford). Joining King was lone local congressional colleague from the same party, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley),...
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By The Jewish Star South Shore Rep. Kathleen Rice traveled to Israel last week as a member of a bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Republican Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. In Jerusalem, the delegation met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro. The delegation spoke with Netanyahu about Israeli counterterrorism efforts and the ...
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JP Updates Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX), where the group discussed Israeli counterterrorism efforts and the importance of the relationship between the United States and Israel. The U.S. delegation included Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) Pete Sessions (R-TX), Vern Buchannan (R-FL), Bill Keating (D-MA), John Katko (R-NY), Will Hurd (R-TX), and Barry Loudermilk (R-GA). The group met in Israel with Prime Minister N...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Kathleen Rice traveled to Israel this week as a member of a bipartisan Congressional delegation led by U.S. Representative Mike McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. In Jerusalem, the delegation met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, and other Israeli officials. In a meeting on Tuesday, the de...
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By Representative Kathleen Rice As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, as a former federal and state prosecutor, and as a New Yorker, my top priority is to protect our country and do all that I can to make sure we never see another day like September 11. Keeping Americans safe demands diligence here at home, but it also demands that we protect our people and interests abroad and work alongside leaders far beyond our borders who are fighting every day against enemies that threa...
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By Robert Harding Auburn Citizen U.S. Rep. John Katko has joined with two Democratic members of the House Homeland Security Committee to address a security vulnerability in the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck program. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, introduced the Securing Expedited Screening Act after a report found an individual who served prison time for crimes committed as a member of a domestic terrorist organization was provided expedited screening by T...
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