ms. pinkerton is -- braffter] ms. pinkerton is recognized for five minutes. ms. pinkerton: thank you so much, chairman katko. we appreciate the opportunity to be here today to talk to you about these important issues. my real message to y'all today is really to say thank you. i think that as a result of your work, t.s.a.'s work together, partnering with airlines and airports, we are cautiously optimistic that t.s.a.'s ready for the summer travel. 4% growth. it's significant. now, the reason for the caution in my optimism, we have not forgotten what happened in 2016. we talked about it here today. there was a terrible d.h.s. i.g. report. t.s.a. ratcheted the dials on the security equation one way without adjusting staffing and other processes. and we did end up with three-hour wait times. i think that's something none of us want. so our lesson learned is actions have consequences. now, that's why, chairman katko, we're supporting your idea of transitioning away from using k-9's to put non-precheck passengers into the precheck lane as long as that's coupled with the

ms. pinkerton? >> we work with tsa almost on a daily basis, and we can't say enough praise for administrator perkoski, darby, and others on his team that have done an outstanding job post the summer of 2016 setting up that kind of regular communication and coordination. now, i will say, some of the issues that we've talked about, some of these ideas, we have been talking about them for years. so, the coordination, though, is very good. >> okay. ms. reiter? >> i would say the same thing as sharon. the associations and airports communicate often, if not daily, with the tsa, and it has been some of them for a long time in discussion, particularly precheck, so same. >> mr. mccormick. >> yeah, i'd say the same. the interaction is terrific, and again, we get buy-in from the top down, but the reality is, some of these areas we have to accelerate, particularly the marketing of the programs to the corporations. it's mentioned in your testimony, but there's a huge opportunity with the corporations and communi

ms. pinkerton. >> we work with tsa almost on a daily basis and we can't say enough praise for the administrator and others on his team that have done an has donen outstanding job post-summer of 2016, setting up that kind of regular communication and coordination. i will say some of the issues we talked about i about and some oe ideas we have been talking about for years, so the coordination is very good. >> i would say the same thing the associations and airports communicate often if not daily with the tsa and some of them it has been a long time particularly pre- check. >> the interaction is terrific from the top-down, but the reality is some of these areas we have to accelerate particularly the marketing of the programs to the corporatio corporations. it was mentioned in your testimony, but there is a huge opportunity with the corporations into the communities and they are reinvested into no more about the travelers can be either need to have a qualified pre- pre-check but the agency maybe isn't the best at driving the programs and that is why we need a third party enrollment and we need to a

ms. pinkerton. >> we work with tsa almost on a daily basis and we can't say enough praise for the administrator and others on his team that have done an has donen outstanding job post-summer of 2016, setting up that kind of regular communication and coordination. i will say some of the issues we talked about i about and some oe ideas we have been talking about for years, so the coordination is very good. >> i would say the same thing the associations and airports communicate often if not daily with the tsa and some of them it has been a long time particularly pre- check. >> the interaction is terrific from the top-down, but the reality is some of these areas we have to accelerate particularly the marketing of the programs to the corporatio corporations. it was mentioned in your testimony, but there is a huge opportunity with the corporations into the communities and they are reinvested into no more about the travelers can be either need to have a qualified pre- pre-check but the agency maybe isn't the best at driving the programs and that is why we need a third party enrollment and we need to a