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Mike Lee introduces bill to abolish the TSA
Deseret News ^ | March 27, 2025 | Cami Mondeaux

Posted on 03/27/2025 11:33:06 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is renewing efforts to fully eliminate the Transportation Security Administration, accusing the federal agency of inefficiency and invading travelers’ privacy.

Lee, along with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Abolish the TSA Act on Thursday, which would dissolve the TSA and establish a separate Office of Aviation Security Oversight to manage airport security. The office would operate completely under the Federal Aviation Administration and transfer security activities and equipment to private companies instead.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism
KEYWORDS: abolish; mikelee; tsa
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Don't get me wrong, abolishing the TSA would be a hugh and series accomplishment. I highly welcome it.

However,

Mike,

Why didn't you create a bill to abolish the Department of Education? What the heck.

1 posted on 03/27/2025 11:33:06 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Make flying great again!


2 posted on 03/27/2025 11:39:18 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Overdue.
Just go to the airport. One person looking on the X-ray machine. Whole lotta others standing there doing not much other than treating people like cattle. Then they put their hands on your junk.


3 posted on 03/27/2025 11:40:20 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Why didn't you create a bill to abolish the Department of Education?

Didn't someone already take care of that?

4 posted on 03/27/2025 11:40:31 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Jess Kitting
"Didn't someone already take care of that?"

I would love to know the name of the House/Senate bill, when it was introduced by whom, etc. (to abolish the Department of Education) Please let me know.

5 posted on 03/27/2025 11:43:33 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“Don’t get me wrong, abolishing the TSA would be a huge and series accomplishment.”

Sounds like a renaming to me. We want certain security things to be done, and done without waste and unnecessary invasions of privacy. Who cares what the agency is called?


6 posted on 03/27/2025 11:43:47 AM PDT by cymbeline
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Didn't someone already take care of that?

No. President Trump just signed an E.O., but apparently it will need an act of Congress to really abolish it.

7 posted on 03/27/2025 11:45:14 AM PDT by WXRGina (Ultra MAGA)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Cost of airport security [aid for by - **the airport**.

The Circle of Life is complete.


8 posted on 03/27/2025 11:45:35 AM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Is privatizing to another business-government partnership really a good idea here?


9 posted on 03/27/2025 11:46:52 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Plus they’re thieves.


10 posted on 03/27/2025 11:47:21 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Not my original satire, but apropos...TSA...thousands standing around....


11 posted on 03/27/2025 11:48:44 AM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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Overdue. Just go to the airport. One person looking on the X-ray machine. Whole lotta others standing there doing not much other than treating people like cattle. Then they put their hands on your junk.

Reason # 135 why we should have bombed the stew out of Afghanistan and Pakistan instead of "fighting" in Pakistan with both hands tied behind our backs to "win over hearts and minds" and such.

If we had killed however many of them it took that the survivors begged us to let them surrender (how we used to win wars), we might have "won over" their thinking to quit attacking our civilians. That would be a lot better than the decades of government overreach at airports against freedom loving and law abiding American citizens.

12 posted on 03/27/2025 11:49:09 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I always like it when the guy in front of me is 6’4’’ with blonde hair who gets singled out for ‘special screening’. Boys, I’m pretty sure his name isn’t Mohammed.


13 posted on 03/27/2025 11:49:28 AM PDT by kawhill (I've thought that if we didn't always think we're the good guys, we would get in less wars. Karl.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

THANK YOU MIKE ! ! ! !


14 posted on 03/27/2025 11:53:54 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: cymbeline

I think they want to privatize TSA.


15 posted on 03/27/2025 11:54:02 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

As I recall, San Francisco, SFO, does not have TSA for security. They use a private company.


16 posted on 03/27/2025 11:54:46 AM PDT by Cuttnhorse
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The job sucks, hard to get good employees that stay


17 posted on 03/27/2025 11:57:32 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

At least scale it back.

It’s insane you still have to remove your shoes. And taking away your water bottles you bought at Hudson before security so you have to get another luke warm expensive bottle.


18 posted on 03/27/2025 11:58:23 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: WXRGina; Jess Kitting

Thomas Massie did.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr899


19 posted on 03/27/2025 12:02:58 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Yes !!!
I am years over 75 and have to fly.I still get “chosen” for special screening...still ,much of the time, I
have to take off my shoes, uncrate computer from bag, take off belt..and ALWAYS get shouted at and treated like a resident of a maximum security prison.I yearn for q small return to the great days of flying. And now no longer can I carry a single kleenex in a pocket..bah humbug !!


20 posted on 03/27/2025 12:21:44 PM PDT by Howe_D_Dewty
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