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John Mica

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U.S. Representative

John Mica is an experienced American politician born on January 27, 1943. He served as a U.S. Representative representing Florida's 8th Congressional District. Mica was active in the House of Representatives on issues related to transportation and infrastructure, serving as the Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

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“Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.”

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“The United States is the only country left now, bar Romania, Bulgaria and Poland, that has this all-government system.”

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“Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.”

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“We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.”

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“Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.”

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“What we're going to do is try to get TSA out of the human resources and personnel business and into the security business to connect the dots.”

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“Under the Obama administration, TSA has been operating without an administrator for a year and a half. After the president's first two choices failed to meet expectations, a new administrator, John Pistole, was finally approved on Friday. Unfortunately, it will be the fifth administrator in eight years.”

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“Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.”

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“It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.”

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“In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.”

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“Yes, I do agree we need health care reform; however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.”

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“When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.”

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“Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.”

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“They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.”

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“The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.”

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Born: January 27, 1943
Known for: U.S. Representative
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