The Aviation Security Improvement Act of 1990: Joint Hearing and Markup Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Aviation of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5200 and H.R. 5732, July 26 and September 27, 1990, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 321 pages |
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... procedures for aviation security , compliance therewith , and enforcement thereof ; to review options for handling terrorist threats , including prior notification to the public ; to investigate practices , policies , and laws with ...
... procedures for aviation security , compliance therewith , and enforcement thereof ; to review options for handling terrorist threats , including prior notification to the public ; to investigate practices , policies , and laws with ...
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... procedures to ensure that the families of victims receive prompt , humane and courteous treatment and service following overseas disasters . In order to facilitate prompt notification of next of kin , it recommended that airline ...
... procedures to ensure that the families of victims receive prompt , humane and courteous treatment and service following overseas disasters . In order to facilitate prompt notification of next of kin , it recommended that airline ...
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... procedures could have increased the likelihood of intercepting any dupe who may have unknowingly checked the bomb aboard the flight at either airport . The Commission found no evidence that Pan Am at Frankfurt briefed or trained its ...
... procedures could have increased the likelihood of intercepting any dupe who may have unknowingly checked the bomb aboard the flight at either airport . The Commission found no evidence that Pan Am at Frankfurt briefed or trained its ...
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... procedures first hand . We sought to answer every question raised by families of the victims of Pan Am 103 and to check out every allegation about that tragedy from all parties . We examined airports , airlines , and the flight record ...
... procedures first hand . We sought to answer every question raised by families of the victims of Pan Am 103 and to check out every allegation about that tragedy from all parties . We examined airports , airlines , and the flight record ...
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... procedures could have increased the likelihood of intercepting any " dupe " who may have unknowingly checked the bomb aboard the flight at either airport . The Commission found that several persons were not administered the prescribed ...
... procedures could have increased the likelihood of intercepting any " dupe " who may have unknowingly checked the bomb aboard the flight at either airport . The Commission found that several persons were not administered the prescribed ...
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Page 319 - It is enough to hold, as we do, that the "discretionary function or duty" that cannot form a basis for suit under the Tort Claims Act includes more than the initiation of programs and activities. It also includes determinations made by executives or administrators in establishing plans, specifications or schedules of operations. Where there is room for policy judgment and decision there is discretion.
Page 130 - The constitutional guaranty of the right of the people to be secure in their papers against unreasonable searches and seizures extends to their papers, thus closed against inspection, wherever they may be. Whilst in the mail, they can only be opened and examined under like warrant, issued upon similar oath or affirmation, particularly describing the thing to be seized, as is required when papers are subjected to search in one's own household.
Page 319 - Any claim based upon an act or omission of an employee of the Government, exercising due care, in the execution of a statute or regulation, whether or not such statute or regulation be valid, or based upon the exercise or performance or the failure to exercise or perform a discretionary function or duty on the part of a federal agency or an employee of the Government, whether or not the discretion involved be abused.
Page 131 - (6) such other factors as the Commission may deem appropriate. "(d) the Postal Service shall maintain one or more classes of mail for the transmission of letters sealed against inspection. The rate for each such class shall be uniform throughout the United States, its territories, and possessions. One such class shall provide for the most expeditious handling and transportation afforded mail matter by the Postal Service. No letter of such a class of domestic origin shall be opened except...
Page 238 - Congress assembled, 3 4 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 5 This Act may be cited as the "Aviation Security Im6 provement Act of 1990".
Page 241 - Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is 12 amended by adding at the end the following new item: 13 "Assistant Secretary for Transportation Security 14 and Intelligence of the Department of Transpor15 tation.".
Page 130 - The difficulty attending the subject arises, not from the want of power in Congress to prescribe regulations as to what shall constitute mail matter, but from the necessity of enforcing them consistently with rights reserved to the people, of far greater importance than the transportation of the mail.
Page 124 - ... opened, removed from postal custody, and processed or treated, but only to the extent necessary to determine and eliminate the danger and only if a complete written and sworn statement of the detention, opening, removal, or treatment, and the circumstances...
Page 320 - US 15, 34 (1953) (stating that the exception protects "the discretion of the executive or the administrator to act according to one's judgment of the best course"). Thus, the discretionary function exception will not apply when a federal statute, regulation, or policy specifically prescribes a course of action for an employee to follow. In this event, the employee has no rightful option but to adhere to the directive.
Page 98 - Postal inspectors have statutory authority to serve Federal warrants and subpoenas, and to make arrests for postal related offenses.