To prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds to enforce or comply with the limitation on the number of Transportation Security Administration employees, and for other purposes.

SA 4558. Mr. LAUTENBERG submitted an amendment intended to be
proposed by him to the bill H.R. 5441, making appropriations for the
Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2007, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the
table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

CERTAIN TSA PERSONNEL LIMITATIONS NOT TO APPLY

Sec.   . No amount appropriated by this or any other Act
may be used to enforce or comply with any statutory
limitation on the number of employees in the Transportation
Security Administration, before or after its transfer to the
Department of Homeland Security from the Department of
Transportation, and no amount appropriated by this or any
other Act may be used to enforce or comply with any
administrative rule or regulation imposing a limitation on
the recruiting or hiring of personnel into the Transportation
Security Administration to a maximum number of permanent
positions, except to the extent that enforcement or
compliance with that limitation does not prevent the
Secretary of Homeland Security from recruiting and hiring
such personnel into the Administration as may be necessary--
(1) to provide appropriate levels of aviation security; and
(2) to accomplish that goal in such a manner that the
average aviation security-related delay experienced by
airline passengers is reduced to a level of 10 minutes.
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