{"id":98881103,"date":"2011-05-16T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/house-gop-moves-to-block-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T11:56:00","slug":"house-gop-moves-to-block-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/house-gop-moves-to-block-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Moves to Block Funding for New TSA Body Scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/travel-trends\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011%2f5%2fProvision_xray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"241\" \/>The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives introduced legislation late last week that would block the government&rsquo;s request for $76 million to purchase an additional 275 full body airport scanners.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRepublican house members stressed that the move was driven only by budget concerns and that the controversy surrounding the scanners did not weigh heavily on their minds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, many representatives took the opportunity to voice opposition to the scanners outright, questioning their effectiveness in making air travel safer for Americans.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe move will not affect the 500 scanners currently installed nationwide nor the 500 additional machines recently approved by Congress. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=yFsCeRUV\" target=\"_blank\">AP <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives introduced legislation late last week that would block the government&rsquo;s request for $76 million to purchase an additional 275 full body airport scanners. &nbsp; Republican house members stressed that the move was driven only by budget concerns and that the controversy surrounding the scanners did not weigh heavily on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}