U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Republican leader John L. Mica (R-FL) wrote to the heads of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding the FAA's failure to produce an effective, tamperproof license for thousands of commercial passenger airline pilots.

Mica questioned why requirements in law that licenses include biometric identification measures and photographs of the pilots have been ignored, and faulted the federal agencies and department for blaming the others for inaction.

In a related press release, Mica also compared the pilot's license fiasco to another federal transportation identification card debacle: the deployment of the Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) for maritime industry workers.  This card was deployed, and port workers required to purchase one, with no approved card readers in use to verify the TWIC’s biometric identifiers.