Brothers in arms,
I tried to get an update of the bill through the secure-skies website.
Such as why there is no status or update posted on that website?
Received the following email back from David Mackett, APSA President:

"The short answer is because we have been reluctant to spend any of our members' money until we see hope for change on the horizon. This year has been occupied with hurricanes and the Supreme Court, and it was obvious Congress wasn't going to revisit FFDO and Chertoff was still getting his feet wet. We have done a lot behind the scenes, but it costs about $500 a quarter to keep the site updated/backed up and to do member updates. We DO see the momentum increasing for 2006, so we are right now in the process of building a completely new website and starting expansion again.

It's a tough call, sometimes, but we really do operate on a shoestring and at the pleasure of our members, and we try to be very careful to make sure the funds provide value added for them.

In answer to your question about the bill, the one we had proffered failed. There is an amendment to the appropriations bill sponsored by Senator McCain, which has bipartisan support, but it is also easily sabotaged by TSA. We'll be doing an analysis of it on the new website".

Looks like this is going to die a slow, natural death unless we put some firepower behind it.

Gman