The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.