Boswell favors federal screening at airports

President Bush called last night for faster work on an aviation-security bill before Congress. Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell, a member of the House Aviation Subcommittee, agrees and says airport screening should be taken over by the government.Boswell says private companies that now employ airport screeners at low pay see a job turnover rate around 80-percent. While Boswell says the security jobs should be “federalized” and the Senate unanimously passed a bill to do that, House republicans say oversight but not federal employment should be the role of government.Workers moved back into two capital-hill office buildings yesterday, after they were cleared of any traces of anthrax, but staffers for Iowa congressman Boswell are still working out of temporary quarters.He hopes to get back in the first of next week, and is temporarily in offices at the general accounting office and taking calls at the local district office in Osceola.