; Sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) On September 11, 2001, nineteen terrorists, who underwent airport security screening prior to boarding domestic flights, were able to commandeer four airplanes and use those airplanes to perpetrate the most deadly terrorist attack ever to be executed on United States soil. (2) In the aftermath of those attacks, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA), enacted by President George W. Bush on November 19, 2001 ( Public Law 107–71 ), to enhance the level of security screening throughout our aviation system and transfer responsibility for such screening from the private sector to a new Federal agency, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). (3) By establishing TSA, Congress and the American public recognized that the highest level of screener performance was directly linked to employment and training standards, pay and benefits, and the creation of an experienced, committed screening workforce. (4) The ATSA included a statutory footnote allowing the TSA Administrator to employ, appoint, discipline, terminate, and fix the compensation , including the terms, and conditions of employment of Federal Service for such a number of individuals as the Under Secretary determines to be necessary to carry out the screening functions of the Under Secretary under section 44901 of title 49, United States Code . (5) TSA has interpreted the ATSA footnote as applying to the Transportation Security Officer workforce performing screening functions, while all other Transportation Security Administration employees, including managers, are subject to title 5, United States Code, as incorporated in title 49 of such Code. (6) In November 2006, the International Labor Organization ruled that the Bush administration violated international labor law when it prohibited Transportation Security Officers from engaging in collective bargaining. (7) After the Federal Labor Relations Board approved a petition for the election of an exclusive