Knives on planes? Grimm angry at TSA head’s cutting remark
Calling a decision by the Transportation Safety Administration’s top leader to allow passengers to bring knives on airplanes “borderline idiotic,” US Rep. Michael Grimm (R-C-Brooklyn-Staten Island) said he has introduced legislation to prevent it from happening.
Grimm reacted with anger to testimony TSA Administrator John Pistole gave at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on March 14. Pistole stood by his decision to lift a ban on knives in airplane cabins.
“Administrator Pistole has made it clear that congressional action is needed,” Grimm said. “If we have to force his hand, we will. I have introduced the ‘No Knives Act’ with Rep. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), which would reinstate the TSA ban, and will do all I can to work with my colleagues to move this bill forward and into law,” he said.