The House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security held a hearing on new ways to protect U.S. air and surface transportation from a possible terrorist attack.
Former Transportation Department official Tom Blank testified, along with outside counterterrorism experts, who discussed how to better protect air and surface systems, streamline the security process and reform the Transportation Security Administration.
Witnesses included: Richard Bloom, associate vice president for academics, and director of terrorism, espionage and security studies, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Robert Poole, director of transportation policy, Reason Foundation; Rick "Ozzie" Nelson, senior fellow and director, Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Tom Blank, executive vice president, Gephardt Government Affairs.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) chaired the hearing.