Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act of 2020

Floor Speech

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Mr. CORREA. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 1140, the Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act.

Mr. Chair, I want to thank, again, Chairman Thompson for his leadership on this issue and bringing this bipartisan piece of legislation to the floor that I am cosponsoring.

Today, finally, we acknowledge that the TSA workers deserve a pay structure and personnel management system that recognizes their value. These employees have had a higher turnover than the average Federal employee, and, in fact, many went unpaid during the government shutdown.

These hardworking men and women are effectively the thin blue line that stands between us and our families while they are traveling by air and those who would do us harm by smuggling items onto planes through checkpoints. That is what a TSA officer does: protect us and our families.

We need to have professional TSA employees. We need to make sure that they are the best of the best. Our family's safety is worth it.

As chairman of the Transportation and Maritime Security Subcommittee, I am proud to stand with these men and women of TSA in strong support of this legislation, and I urge all of my colleagues to vote ``aye.''

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