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and is currently tasked with providing security for the 
Nation’s airports, maintaining a security force to screen 
all commercial airline passengers and baggage, and work-
ing with the transportation, law enforcement, and intel-
ligence communities to ensure safety; 
Whereas every day, the TSA processes an average of 1.7 mil-
lion passengers at more than 450 airports across the Na-
tion and in 2012, 637,582,122 passengers relied on TSA 
screening to ensure that they safely reached their des-
tinations; 
Whereas on March 5, 2013, the Transportation Security Ad-
ministration publicly announced its intention to permit 
passengers, effective April 25, 2013, to bring previously 
banned items in their carry-on baggage when boarding 
flights; 
Whereas prohibited items that would be permitted effective 
that date include items that are potentially dangerous to 
passengers, flight attendants, pilots, and Federal air 
marshals, and include hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, golf 
clubs, and, more alarmingly, small knives; 
Whereas on April 9, 2013, the Nation was reminded of the 
terrible harm that small knives can inflict on victims 
when a mass stabbing occurred on the campus of Lone 
Star College in Houston, Texas, during which the suspect 
used a razor utility knife and caused injuries, including 
lacerations of the face and neck, to 14 people; 
Whereas the TSA’s decision to allow these items was made 
without a formal engagement process and without the 
consultation of members of the Homeland Security Com-
mittee or its Subcommittee on Transportation Security, 
the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, or the various 
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stakeholders in the air transit industry that will be di-
rectly affected by this change; 
Whereas the American public, air travel industry stake-
holders, and Federal air marshals have expressed strong 
disapproval of the impending Prohibited Items List 
changes, and their lives and well-being would be placed 
in jeopardy as a result of the changes; and 
Whereas the $1,270,000,000 in estimated sequestration cuts 
currently in effect at the TSA exposes the agency to 
vulnerabilities and facing increased security risks due to 
potential furloughs, hiring freezes, and layoffs of critical 
personnel, including transportation security officers and 
Federal air marshals, as well as the elimination of the 
Crew Member Self Defense Training Program: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) the House of Representatives disapproves of 
the Transportation Security Administration’s deci-
sion to modify the prohibited items list, set to take 
effect on April 25, 2013, that would allow pas-
sengers to bring small knives in their carry-on bag-
gage; and 
(2) the Transportation Security Administra-
tion’s implementation of those changes to its Prohib-
ited Items List should be delayed indefinitely until 
such time that the agency conducts a formal engage-
ment process involving all of the affected stake-
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holders and has meaningful consultations with af-
fected air travel industry stakeholders, including 
flight attendants. 
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