174 Dems in the House vote against amendment that would have barred TSA from hiring terrorists??

How f'd up are the Dems in congress?  You can't possibly imagine, but I'll try to show you.

Everyone knows what the TSA is, right?  Responsible for screening commercial airline passengers, to ensure we never see another terrorist group crashing jetliners into buildings, as on 9/11.  Understandable.

So you'd think that if someone in congress--from either party--introduced an amendment to a bill stating that the TSA couldn't hire known terrorists, that would pass unanimously, right?

And since our dumb-ass government has given TSA "screeners" lots of power to force people to submitto a pat-down as a condition of boarding their airplane, then if some congress-critter--again, from either party--put up an amendment saying TSA couldn't hire convicted sex offenders or those convicted of "other violent offenses," that should also pass unanimously, right?

But when just such an amendment was introduced to the Rights for Transportation Security Officers Act, 174 Democrat congresscreeps in the House voted it DOWN. 

The votes against the amendment included all four members of "the squad"--AOC, Ayana Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.  The last two, we note, are Muslim, so one can understand that they're not concerned about terrorism.

What's telling is that the amendment was submitted by a Democrat, Rep. Lauren Underwood (Ill.). House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the amendment "was pulled back by leadership because the socialist wing of the party did not want to have that amendment go forward on this bill."  "The majority of the House would like to see the TSA not hire terrorists or those who have been convicted of sexual misconduct with minors and others. But the socialist wing of the party, that controls now the Democratic Party, said that that could not be offered."

Republicans were able to include the amendment in the bill only after Underwood and 41 other Democrats broke ranks to insert the language into the bill in a 227-175 vote.

Nancy Pelosi did not respond to a request for comment on why the amendment was pulled, nor did Underwood. Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, and Hoyer did not respond to requests for comment about the bill.

Lesko argued in favor of the amendment by highlighting troubling examples of sexual misconduct by TSA screeners, including a Los Angeles screener who used fraud to falsely imprison and unclothe a woman going through security.

"Fortunately, this offender was immediately fired by the TSA. However, under this bill … this predator could be on the federal payroll for months or even years," Lesko said. "We have two options today: Adopt the Underwood amendment and keep sexual predators off of the federal payroll, or reject it and reward sexual predators with a paycheck from the taxpayer."

When the TSA was created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, Congress exempted it from salary and workplace policies—known as Title 5—that apply to other federal workers in order to ensure flexibility.  Mere weeks after being created, TSA workers unionized under the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and organizers have lobbied Congress to end the exemption, which would lead not only to pay increases for workers, but increased dues for union coffers.

A powerful fixture in Democratic politics, AFGE has already spent nearly $1 million on the 2020 election, with 95 percent going to Democrats. It has made the bargaining power of TSA workers a central point in determining its 2020 endorsements; both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and former vice president Joe Biden pledged to end the agency's exemption to Title 5 if elected president in an AFGE questionnaire. President Donald Trump announced that he plans to veto the bill if it advances past the Senate.

Ah, now I get it: If the AFGE gets what it wants from the Dem-controlled House, Dems in congress get more contributions from...the AFGE.  Makes perfect sense.  Well, in a bizarro kind of way.

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