ports carry twics. our first and most critical line of maritime defense at sea is the coast guard, which must defend our coast, rescue thousands at sea, respond to marine casualties and oil spills, intercept drugs and enforce security requirements at 2,500 facilities and on nearly 13,000 vessels regulated by the maritime transportation security act. this service of 42,000 active-duty officers and members do all of this on a budget of less than $10 billion per year. less than 2% of the d.o.d.'s base budget, and they now face additional cuts of up to 1,000 active duty with next year's budget. the coast guard does all that we ask of them to do. however, we cannot continue to stretch the service and assume that it will never break or the gaps will not open in our maritime security. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. thank you for your courtesy. >> i thank the gentleman. we've also been joined by the chairman of the full transportation committee, and i now recognize him. >> first of all, thank you so muc

there are over 32 recognized commercial off the shelf twic readers, we expect one of the concerns will be whether you use a mobile system or whether it's a fixed system that would be at a container terminal. but we would envision approximately a two-year period of time from the time a final rule was on the street to pull implementation across industry. >> mr. sadler you have a response. >> i think, sir, during the pilot we did show when the readers were installed properly, the people who worked in the facilities were trained properly and the workers were assimilated to the cards and the use of the cards with those readers, that they did work properly. they did not impede the flow of commerce in those particular ports but it does depend on the installation, it does depend on the training and does depend on whether the facility has picked the right reader for is business need. >> admiral, the employees were successful in accessing using counterfeit twic acquired through fraudulent means and false business cases. let me ask you this. i want you to clarify an individual -- at individual po

unrelated to twic. there were holes in the fenceline that would allow people with no business to enter into those a facilities. >> how long has twic been on line? >> twic was implemented in 2009 when 2700 facilities were required to have twic, on that date all facilities were in compliance. the twic reader is going to be critical as we go forward. that will be the next enabling mek nifrm because the chip is what provides the next level of security beyond the visual recognition. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. seeing no one else on the other side i will go to mrs. blackburn from tennessee for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank the committee for allowing me to participate today. this is an issue, tsa and their participation and their conduct is something that is important to my constituents, and mr. lord and mr. mclaughlin have both mc have both mentioned constituent satisfaction, customer satisfaction as a goal. i would just commend to you looking at the economist magazines onlin

none of foreign mariners carry twics. the coast guard must defend our coast, rusty thousand but see, respond to marine casualties rescue thousands at sea. this service of 42,000 active- duty officers do all this on a budget of less than $10 billion a year. less than 2% of the budget. they now face additional cuts. the coast guard does all we ask them to do. we cannot continue to stretch the service and assume they will never break. i yelled back. thank you for your courtesy. >> first of all, thank you so much. i am honored to co-chair this hearing with you. sorry there was a little bit of a delay. i am pleased to be with you. thank you for your leadership. this is a very important agency that we have joint responsibility over. our committee has some limited oversight responsibility under transportation, as you may recall. tsa was created -- i happen to chair the subcommittee on aviation in 2001 after the terrorist attacks. since that time, tsa has grown from 16,500 screeners and a small cadre of different transportation s

scott talked about the twic card. we have had some back and forth on that with the department for many months now. and we hope to have some resolution on that, because that is one of the areas within the performance standards that is holding up the implementation, quite frankly. >> okay. and mr. wright, i just wanted to encourage you in those as part of the union that you support, i hope that you'll share with them the comments from mr. allmond in his testimony where he said that in particular we strongly urge dhs to rely on half a dozen or so federally issued credentials that involve the tstb check. unions have also expressed a concern with dhs about the proposal. so they've supported you in that. and they've also noted additionally, relying upon contractors who typically have high job turnover -- per -- per -- whatever. i'm struggling on that word today. a little late last night. the need for constant retraining, institutional knowledge is the key to the activities and conducted primarily with contract support. so t

seconds again and not breathing for the secretarsecond time we said say and you check the air ways twic and when you know someone is dead you move on. let's go through the categories. walking wounded and anybody tha follows directions and get up and walk and it's green. d is delayed and anybody that i injured but we don't think it's life-threatening. i is the people that need treatment right now and d is th dead and black and during triag you open an air way and how lon does that take? two seconds and it takes ten seconds to check and bleeding - the only bleeding i want you to treat during triage are arteria bleeding and spurting out and you could bleed to death in about three minutes and shock and if the person is unconsciou on the chair and how do i treat for shock? lay down and lift the feet and cover you and takes ten -15 seconds and i move on. the categories, black for peopl that are dead and green people that are walking and the only two categories left are red and yellow. this rule here that i'm going t teach you now and i want you to memorize it and this is the rul that is going

the federal government and industry, gao continues to find the tsa is failing to properly administer twic, the transportation worker identification credential. i have seen this failure myself. i have seen a mandated bio id simply waived. showing a picture i.d. is not in fact what congressman dated. deploying these and deploying them in a way which is quick and effective is essential. let's remember, they cost a lot of money to produce the card. simply using it as a high-priced i.d. card is not acceptable. without creating a plan to upgrade its explosive detection system, or eds, which will cost $964 million or more to the taxpayer, tsa cannot ensure updating eds will be feasible or cost-effective. let me just reiterate. eds is an important system. whether it's the inadvertent touching of fertilizer or the real operational use of explosive, we need to know. we need to screen. it is an effective tool if it works. if it doesn't work and work 100% of the time, we have the biggest problem we could possibly have. lastly, the vipir program, visual intermodal prevention and response, faces seriou

the other is about the twic cards. they are important, but it seems like there could be a better way to allow the people who receive them to pick them up. improvement in that system would be helpful to my community. who is the expert on the process at the airport? >> the airport would be myself. >> today, i was asked to take off my watch. why? >> i was not there with you. it is possible that the officer working to facilitate the travel of customers might have felt that it would alarm and you would have had an easier experience by removing it. you are not required to remove your watch. >> everybody was. she was announcing, take off your watch. if the light is on, they will not pass you. they say, it will save you cost in the future. that is not epa's job. nor is it your job to make it less likely. i do not get it. it makes no sense to me at all. she said, you've got to take it off. the rules need to be consistent. for a while, we did do shoes. shoes must be looked laid flat on the conveyor belt. is that a uniform rule?