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The agreement comes after the announcement in mid-May that the T.S.A. had set a firm deadline of Dec. 3 for airlines to conduct "100 percent" screening for explosives of all cargo carried on passenger flights bound for the United States.

Melendez says the TSA started airport screening for explosives using what's called an "air shower" system in the summer of 2004.

Air travel is down in the country, slowed by a difficult economy, which prompted the federal Department of Homeland Security to offer to the Police Department some of its personnel who have done similar screening for explosives at airports.

His checked bag underwent extra screening for explosives, with no extra scrutiny required by CAPPS at the passenger-security checkpoint.

It makes airport security a federal responsibility and requires that all checked bags be screened for explosives by early next year.

The legislation's most urgent deadline is the mandate that all checked bags be screened for explosives by the end of the year.

A few minutes later, a car bomb went off outside the Green Zone entrance, where government employees and officials are usually screened for explosives and weapons.

The House bill would require bag-matching until all checked luggage can be screened for explosives; the Senate bill requires "improved" bag-matching.

All checked baggage would be screened for explosives by 2003, a measure that was attached to the bill to win the vote of Representative Christopher Shays, Republican of Connecticut.

Congress wants all checked bags screened for explosives but has not appropriated the $2 billion that officials say bomb-detection machines will cost.

Cars, trucks and buses will be screened for explosives and contraband hidden underneath the vehicles under a pilot program starting today at Atlantic City International Airport.