Tag: Air Travel

"We must continue to stay ahead of the evolving and persistent threat to the global aviation sector â" starting with enhanced coordination and collaboration with foreign partners." (Credit: Deputy Director of Communications at House Homeland Committee Tessica Glancey)

Bipartisan delegation goes to Jordan and Germany to investigate airport security

Diana Stancy Correll · October 24, 2017 12:10 am

In 2007, 803 guns were apprehended by TSA officers. This year, that number is expected to come in at just under 4,000 seizures. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

TSA on pace to seize record number of guns at airport checkpoints

Anna Giaritelli · October 22, 2017 4:01 am

Friends of the Earth flew a single-engine plane over an oil and gas conference as part of a campaign to pressure the EPA chief to pay back $58,000 he spent on private chartered flights. (Annie Mulligan)

Energy and Environment

Environmental groups buzz EPA chief Scott Pruitt in elaborate plane protest

John Siciliano · October 20, 2017 10:07 pm

The FAA has not said if it plans to extend the proposed ban to domestic flights as well. (AP Photo/FAA, File)

FAA pushes for ban on laptops in checked bags over fire, explosion risk

Kara Zupkus · October 20, 2017 9:29 pm

The Cuban Airport Security Act would require the Transportation Security Administration to study security at Cuba's airports. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

House to demand investigation into Cuba’s airport security after Obama ‘stonewalled’

Pete Kasperowicz · October 20, 2017 7:05 pm

The U.S. company gets $0 unless it finds MH-370's main debris field. (Greg Wood/Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

This Texas company is very confident it can find that missing Malaysian plane

Tom Rogan · October 20, 2017 3:44 pm

Congress and regulators have been lackluster at managing and upgrading the 24/7-business of air traffic control. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Beltway Confidential

Air traffic control might finally move into the 21st century

Marc Scribner · October 19, 2017 12:00 am

House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., again asked the Justice Department for documents pertaining to government air travel since the Jan. 20 inauguration. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trey Gowdy’s oversight panel threatens Jeff Sessions with subpoena over air travel documents

Daniel Chaitin · October 18, 2017 11:08 pm

A number of Democrats have called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to return to Capitol Hill, under oath, to testify, after documents unsealed this week appear to dispute his prior testimony in which he denied knowing about a proposed meeting with Russians and former Trump campaign staff. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jeff Sessions is confident Trump’s travel ban will win in Supreme Court

Todd Shepherd · October 18, 2017 3:23 pm

A federal judge in Hawaii blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its latest travel ban, just hours before it was set to take effect. On Wednesday, a Maryland judge blocked the the president's new travel policy. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

National Security

Second judge blocks Trump travel ban

Anna Giaritelli · October 18, 2017 12:49 pm

"I am a frequent flier on Southwest and United," Perry said. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry defends his flight record on Capitol Hill

John Siciliano · October 12, 2017 5:31 pm

Speaking about a phone number request with the gravity of a violent crime doesn't come across as enlightened, it comes across as exaggerated. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Beltway Confidential

A TSA agent asked for Brie Larson’s phone number and she was not pleased

Emily Jashinsky · October 9, 2017 8:10 pm