Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) on a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to reject Delta Airline’s call for a no-fly list for unruly passengers.
“According to data from the Federal Aviation Administration, the majority of recent infractions on airplanes have been in relation to the mask mandate from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). While we strongly condemn any violence toward airline workers, there is significant uncertainty around the efficacy of this mandate, as highlighted by the CEO of Southwest Airlines during a recent Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing. Creating a federal ‘no-fly’ list for unruly passengers who are skeptical of this mandate would seemingly equate them to terrorists who seek to actively take the lives of Americans and perpetrate attacks on the homeland. The TSA was created in the wake of 9/11 to protect Americans from future horrific attacks, not to regulate human behavior onboard flights,” the senators wrote.
Senators Cramer and Lummis are joined on the letter by Senators Mike Lee (R-UT), James Lankford (R-OK), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Rick Scott (R-FL).