House Homeland Security Committee chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) has urged the Senate to act on two bills the House recently passed: to restore the State Department’s cyber office, and to reorganize DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate. Neither is currently scheduled for a vote in the Senate.
In the same speech, McCaul argued for the use of CT scanning – the 3D medical diagnostic tool – in airport security screening, to detect experimental techniques for hiding explosives in portable computers. He criticized the Office of Management and Budget, saying it had cut TSA’s budget for the program in half and put off deployment strategies until at least 2019.
McCaul is retiring at the end of 2018.