{"id":697,"date":"2011-05-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/house-gop-moves-to-end-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:00:00","slug":"house-gop-moves-to-end-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/house-gop-moves-to-end-funding-for-new-tsa-body-scanners\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Moves to End Funding for New TSA Body Scanners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Passengers stream through a TSA checkpoint <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Republican-controlled US House of Representatives introduced legislation late last week that would deny 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>\nRepresentatives stressed that the move was strictly budgetary and that the controversy surrounding the machines did not weigh heavily on their decision.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStill, a few representatives took the opportunity to voice opposition to the scanners by questioning their effectiveness in making air travel safer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe move will not affect the 500 machines already installed at nationwide airports or the 500 additional scanners recently approved by the government.\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>&nbsp; Passengers stream through a TSA checkpoint &nbsp; The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives introduced legislation late last week that would deny the government&rsquo;s request for $76 million to purchase an additional 275 full body airport scanners. &nbsp; Representatives stressed that the move was strictly budgetary and that the controversy surrounding the machines did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}