1.   Airport security screening is not the only kind of militant monitoring happening around our besieged nation these days.

2.   But on the critical issue of airport screening, it goes further than the administration had suggested.

3.   Cleland, who led the drive to federalize airport screening, contends aviation security is undergoing a real and dramatic transformation.

4.   However, she sided with a growing number of lawmakers working to completely federalize airport screening.

5.   It was the debate over how to staff airport screening that represented the most contentious element of the bill.

6.   Orcullo worries about proposals in Congress to have the federal government take over airport screening and turn all screeners into federal employees.

7.   Proposals include more armed sky marshals on planes and a federal takeover of airport screening.

8.   The agency is overseeing the federalization of airport screening, installation of bomb-detection devices and expansion of the air marshal program.

9.   The incident comes as Congress debates how to modify airport screening.

10.   They argue the government can tighten security rules and improve oversight of airport screening without hiring new federal employees.