June 5, 2009 8:33AM 

# House Votes against “Strip-Search” Machines 

By [Jim Harper](https://www.cato.org/people/jim-harper) 

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Yesterday the House adopted an amendment to the [Transportation Security Administration Authorization Act](http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2200.html) that would prohibit the TSA from using Whole Body-Imaging machines for primary screening at airports and require the TSA to give passengers the option of a pat-down search in place of going through a WBI machine, among other things.

You can read [the amendment here](http://www.washingtonwatch.com/blog/2009/06/04/house-restricts-strip-search-machines/), and the roll call vote will soon be up [here](http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2009&rollnumber=305). Use it to decide whether to cheer or jeer your member of Congress.

More on strip-search machines [here](https://www.cato.org/2009/06/02/house-to-consider-ban-on-body-scans/), [here](https://www.cato.org/2009/04/24/limiting-the-tsas-use-of-strip-search-machines/), and [here](https://www.cato.org/2009/02/18/the-tsa-strip-search-machines/).

##### Related Tags 

[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy) 

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