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Calandrelli's story drew social media outrage and news coverage, prompting the TSA to release a statement on May 13 saying, in part, that the agency was \"committed to ensuring that every traveler is treated respectfully and courteously at the checkpoint\" and that it would \"continue to engage with advocacy and community-based organizations to enhance our screening protocols\" and \"re-double our training to ensure our screening procedures are being consistently applied.\"
After introducing the proposed bill amendment, Porter re-shared Calandrelli's tweets and added in her own message, \"Earlier this summer, my constituent Emily called out @TSA for failing parents traveling with breast milk. We worked together to draft bipartisan, bicameral legislation to better protect parents like her who just want to keep their babies fed. I proudly introduced our bill today.\"
Calandrelli told \"GMA\" in a new statement that the proposed legislation she helped co-write felt like a \"full circle moment.\"
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\"I had a unique perspective because I had thousands of moms and parents reach out to me to detail their own issues they experienced with TSA while traveling with young kids and/or breastmilk and formula,\" Calandrelli wrote in an emailed statement. \"From those comments I was able to do a short analysis of what the most common issues were so that we could figure out what problems actually need to be addressed.\"
\"I'm excited that this bill will be helping all of those parents and families who reached out to me,\" she continued. \"Because of Representative Porter (and all of the other representatives who are supporting this bill), families will be able to travel [through] security a bit faster and with fewer issues -- and I think we can all get excited about that!\"
A similar version of the proposed House bill is expected to be introduced in the Senate as well, with Sens. Tammy Duckworth, of Illinois; Mazie Hirono, of Hawaii; and Steve Daines, of Montana, sponsoring it.
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