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Senate Approves Airport, Transportation Security Measures As Part Of FAA Bill

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, April 7th, 2016

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Senate Approves Airport, Transportation Security Measures As Part Of FAA Bill

The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed two amendments aimed at boosting airport and transportation security as part of its consideration of a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) through the end of FY ’17.The Airport Security Enhancement and Oversight Act (S. 2361) allows the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to have real-time access to additional terrorism-related databases maintained by the intelligence community and allows the agency to conduct real-time continuous criminal records checks through the FBI. The amendment passed…

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