{"id":39007,"date":"2016-09-23T13:06:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/?p=39007"},"modified":"2016-09-23T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:06:06","slug":"senate-bi-partisan-push-tsa-protection-transit-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/senate-bi-partisan-push-tsa-protection-transit-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate bi-partisan push for TSA protection of transit and rail","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/origin-nyi.thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/297216-senators-unveil-bill-to-ensure-tsa-protects-trains-buses-and-ports\">The Hill.com reported<\/a> that just days after a backpack filled with explosives was found near a New Jersey train station, Senator <span class=\"rollover-people\">John Thune<\/span> (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and \u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\">Bill Nelson<\/span> (D-Fla.), its ranking member, submitted a bill that would mandate the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to allocate funds to secure and protect\u00a0rail and transit\u00a0transportation hubs. \u00a0Read the complete article <a href=\"http:\/\/origin-nyi.thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/297216-senators-unveil-bill-to-ensure-tsa-protects-trains-buses-and-ports\">here.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill.com reported that just days after a backpack filled with explosives was found near a New Jersey train station, Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and \u00a0Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), its ranking member, submitted a bill that would mandate the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to allocate funds to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":6,"featured_media":29313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31,45,32,33,300,222,12,9,18,119],"tags":[3410,104,3411,575,3412,569,2991,3413,3414,3415,1195],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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