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U.S. Must Act on Pat-Down Backlash, Lawmaker Says

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The U.S. government must take steps to improve airline passenger privacy after an outcry over pat-down procedures at airport checkpoints, said Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican.

“We’ve got to see some action,” Hutchison told John Pistole, chief of the Transportation Security Administration, at a hearing today in Washington. “We’ve got to do more. The outcry is huge.”