The measure, introduced by Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.), requires TSA to develop a separate process for checking military personnel.

A two-year-old effort to require the Transportation Security Administration to donate change left by passengers at airport security to veterans organizations has revived as a group of newspapers is rallying to the cause.

Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) filed a bill that would require TSA to transfer money that is not claimed by passengers when they leave airport security checkpoints to United Service Organizations (USO) in April of 2009. But as 2011 became 2012, the Los Angeles Times and the New Orleans Times-Picayune have written about the measure, with the latter arguing in an editorial Tuesday that the bill "makes a lot more sense than allowing TSA to keep the money."

"Airline passengers going through security checkpoints sometimes leave things behind — including loose coins that totaled $376,480.39 in fiscal 2010," the Times-Picayune wrote.

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Your morning transportation speed-read:

Republican presidential candidates are not talking much now about transportation, but they have in the past.

The Transportation Security Administration says it caught a former military member trying to carry explosives through airport security in Texas.

A plane slid off a runway after landing in Ohio.

Miami is about to get a new Metrorail line to its airport.

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) introduced legislation to end the $7,500 tax credit for people who purchase plug-in electric cars.

Fisker Automotive is recalling vehicles that contain a faulty battery component that could cause a fire.

Senate Democrats expect to pass a surface transportation bill soon after they return to Washington next month.

The National Labor Relations Board will be left with two board members when the recess appointment of Craig Becker expires.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not need a bat signal to catch a passenger it said was carrying a punching blade. 

The agency said Friday that a passenger at San Antonio International Airport was caught with a blade that was shaped like Batman's famous "bat signal." 

The agency said the blade was one of more than two dozen weapons discovered this week at airports as holiday travel picked up. Among the other discoveries, the agency said Friday, was a flare gun with seven flares at Norfolk International Airport in Virginia. 

The labor board delayed the requirement on employers until April 30, at the request of a federal court.