Lawmakers questioned late last month the Transportation Security Administration's plans for implementing a legal mandate to conduct 100 percent cargo screening on passenger aircrafts. Under the 9/11 Act, the TSA is required to begin screening 50 percent of air cargo by February 2009 and 100 percent by August 2010. The law does not specify, though, whether such screening should be conducted on cargo carried on foreign carriers that arrive in the United States from foreign airports. While the TSA plans to only implement the mandate within the United States, Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said in a letter to the agency late last month that the mandate also applies to inbound cargo from foreign airports.
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机译：议员们在上个月末质疑美国运输安全管理局（Transportation Security Administration）实施一项法律授权以对客机进行100％货物筛查的计划。根据9/11号法案，要求TSA在2009年2月之前开始对50％的航空货物进行筛查，并在2010年8月之前开始对100％的航空货物进行筛查。尽管如此，法律并未明确规定是否应对外国承运人的货物进行筛查。从国外机场到达美国。虽然TSA计划仅在美国境内执行该任务，但是上个月晚些时候，代表Res。Ed Markey（D-Mass）和Sheila Jackson Lee（D-Texas）在给该机构的一封信中说，该任务也适用于入境货物从国外机场。
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