mr. cartwright of pennsylvania. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 512, the gentleman from pennsylvania and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania for five minutes. mr. cartwright: this bill uses streamlining the regulatory eupham inch h is a sm over bedrock and environmental laws. it dead indicates 50 pages of this bill to paving over the national environmental policy act, also known as nepa, as well as the national historic reservation act, nhpa. i know it is popular in republican circles, they blame environmental regulations. the evidence tells us a different story. the federal highway administration reported several years ago before all of this steamrolling started that more than 90% of nepa reviews for highway projects were accomplished through a categorical exclusion process that takes only a few days. for the few and we're talking about only 4% of highway projects which do require an environmental impact statement, the end result is often sav

mr. cartwright from pennsylvania for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. tsa is a front-line counterterrorism organization, and it is transportation -- and its transportation security officers, the tso's we have been talking about, they have to get it right every time. you forenger, thank being here. do tso's receive annual review testing? neffenger: they do. knowright: do the tso's when they are going to be tested for their annual performance reviews? neffenger: typically, yes. cartwright: on average, how do they perform? neffenger: on average, they perform well. cartwright: but what we find out is the covert tests conducted by the inspector general, jl, and your own internal teams -- , and yourgeneral, gao own internal teams, they bring their a game when they know the sot is coming, but not much at other times. inspector general roth, would you say covert tests there out the concern -- covert tests bear out the concern i'm talking about? i.g. roth: yes. majority havee been focused on wait times for passengers, rather than safety concerns. i want to ask a

mr. cartwright from pennsylvania for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. tsa is a front-line counterterrorism organization, and it is transportation -- and its transportation security officers, the tso's we have been talking about, they have to get it right every time. you forenger, thank being here. do tso's receive annual review testing? neffenger: they do. knowright: do the tso's when they are going to be tested for their annual performance reviews? neffenger: typically, yes. cartwright: on average, how do they perform? neffenger: on average, they perform well. cartwright: but what we find out is the covert tests conducted by the inspector general, jl, and your own internal teams -- , and yourgeneral, gao own internal teams, they bring their a game when they know the sot is coming, but not much at other times. inspector general roth, would you say covert tests there out the concern -- covert tests bear out the concern i'm talking about? i.g. roth: yes. majority havee been focused on wait times for passengers, rather than safety concerns. i want to ask a

mr. cartwright: mr. speaker, i rise to oppose this rule.this bill, 4038, was rushed to the floor with no hearings, no opportunities for amendments, none of the things that speaker ryan promised us about an open process, a bottom up process. i agree that preventing dangerous actors from entering the united states is paramount, and i also agree we must be strong in our resolve to confront and defeat terrorism wherever it comes from. but i submitted an amendment to this bill which would have excluded women and children from the extra and potentially onerous process this bill would enact for refugee vetting. refugees from this region already undergo far more rigorous screening process than anybody else seeking admission to this country. the process takes on average between 18 and 24 months. and longer in many cases. before a refugee sets foot on u.s. soil, surely this process is sufficient for women and children, widows and/or fans -- and orphans of terrorism, who come from refugee camps, and means that this bill is particularly punitive for th