{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-neguse-joins-colorado-delegation-letter-urging-tsa-work-den-improve", "Rep. Neguse Joins Colorado Delegation in Letter Urging TSA to Work with DEN to Improve Security Wait Times", "2023-10-24", "2023", "2023-10", "Democrat", "House", "CO", "Joe Neguse", "N000191", "neguse.house.gov", "neguse", "https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Lafayette, CO \u2014 Today, Congressman Joe Neguse joined U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and Representatives Diana DeGette, Ken Buck, Jason Crow, Brittany Pettersen, and Yadira Caraveo in a letter calling on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to work with Denver International Airport to improve wait times for passengers.\n\n\u201cWe write to request that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) take all appropriate steps to fully deploy resources at Denver International Airport (DEN) in response to the unprecedented increase in travelers the airport has experienced this past year,\u201d the lawmakers wrote.\n\nDenver International Airport is the country\u2019s third busiest airport and passenger traffic is expected to grow to a record 78 million passengers this year. However, a lack of transparency into TSA\u2019s staffing formula has limited the airport\u2019s ability to respond to its increased volume of travelers.\n\n\u201cAt the moment, DEN does not have the necessary TSA roles to meet this demand, which has resulted in longer than expected wait times for security lines. In fact, TSA has allocated fewer roles for DEN than it did in 2019, when passenger volume was lower,\u201d continued the lawmakers. \u201cUnderstanding TSA's resource allocation would allow DEN to develop its own standards for passenger traffic forecasting and operations management, especially as the airport experiences seasonal, weekly, and daily fluctuations in visitors.\u201d\n\nThe text of the letter is available HERE and below.\n\nDear Administrator Pekoske:\n\nWe write to request that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) take all appropriate steps to fully deploy resources at Denver International Airport (DEN) in response to the unprecedented increase in travelers the airport has experienced this past year.\n\nDEN is the third busiest airport in the United States. It is the region\u2019s largest economic engine and generates over $36 billion annually.\n\nIn recent months, DEN\u2019s passenger traffic has grown at an extraordinary pace. In June alone, 6.7 million passengers traveled through DEN. The airport expects to welcome a record total 78 million passengers this year \u2013 five million more than originally expected.\n\nAt the moment, DEN does not have the necessary TSA roles to meet this demand, which has resulted in longer than expected wait times for security lines. In fact, TSA has allocated fewer roles for DEN than it did in 2019, when passenger volume was lower.\n\nTo that end, we urge you to provide DEN with transparency into TSA\u2019s resource allocation, and the model that underpins it. Understanding TSA's resource allocation would allow DEN to develop its own standards for passenger traffic forecasting and operations management, especially as the airport experiences seasonal, weekly, and daily fluctuations in visitors.\n\nWe are pleased to hear that a meeting is scheduled to discuss these issues. We hope that this will give TSA more insight into the extreme uptick in passenger traffic at DEN and provide meaningful steps to address it.\n\nWe are grateful for the successful partnership that DEN and TSA have built over the past several years, and we applaud TSA\u2019s efforts to help DEN to open its new state-of-the-art West passenger screening security checkpoint in February. We welcome the opportunity to continue working with TSA to better serve Coloradans and all visitors to our state.\n\nThank you for your attention to this important matter. We look forward to discussing this issue further with you and members of your team.\n\nSincerely,", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T00:49:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://neguse.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-neguse-joins-colorado-delegation-letter-urging-tsa-work-den-improve"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5193810686469078, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}