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Old Jan 7, 2008 | 11:23 am
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Originally Posted by LessO2
CONGRESS mandated the lighter thing. As much as I would like to blame the TSA, it was Congress that mandated that.
Yep - a couple of idiot Senators drafted the no-butane lighter rule, IIRC.

Since the butane lighter prohibition was statutory, how did the TSA manage to re-allow them? Wonder if the statutory prohibition contained some rule-making discretion that permitted the TSA to relax the rule?
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