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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America US lawmakers to tackle airport security AFP - Sunday, January 10 Send IM Story Print An outbound passenger (L) and a Transportation Secrurity Administration officer watch as US President Barack Obama speaks on the news at Washington Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC. Boosted airport security measures will be at the top of US lawmakers' agenda when they return to Congress next week, amid intelligence failures exposed by the botched Christmas Day attack. WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Boosted airport security measures will be at the top of US lawmakers' agenda when they return to Congress next week, amid intelligence failures exposed by the botched Christmas Day attack. Top senators vowed to grill intelligence bosses on the alleged failings, with Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter in the firing line. "We will ask Admiral Blair and Director Leiter why the intelligence community was unable to bring together pieces of intelligence held by various agencies to detect this plot," vowed Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman. Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, will hold hearings on how to improve US security in the wake of the thwarted attack, starting January 20. The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing that same day on aviation security. "This incident raises concerns not only about the effectiveness of our aviation security screening, especially internationally, but also about the degree to which we are connecting the dots and sharing information in the intelligence community," said the committee's chairman, Jay Rockefeller. Several other panels have promised to examine the intelligence lapses. President Barack Obama has ordered a sweeping overhaul of US intelligence, which he has blamed for missing red flags that could have detected the plot. The plot triggered global alarm, leading the United States to adopt stringent new screening and security measures at airports around the world. Dozens of names have also been added to no-fly lists. Congress will look into the matter just as both chambers scramble to strike an agreement by the end of this month on a final version of a sweeping overhaul of the embattled US healthcare system, Obama's top domestic priority. In the House of Representatives, the Intelligence Committee is scheduled to receive a briefing from top officials on Wednesday about progress into the investigation of the investigation into Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. It was not US intelligence but passengers and crew who averted potential disaster when they overpowered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, after explosives allegedly stitched into his underwear failed to detonate aboard the aircraft carrying nearly 300 people. The myriad hearings on the legislative agenda come as the Republican opposition -- which hopes to seize congressional seats from the Democrats in 2010 mid-term elections -- press Obama to further tighten security and revamp the fight against militants. Related article: Obama orders 'immediate' steps House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner welcomed Obama's initial efforts to "correct the weaknesses" in US intelligence and security that allowed the plot to go forward. But he stressed he was "concerned that the president has yet to lay out a real, comprehensive strategy to fight and win the war on terror." Republicans are also calling for increased US aid to help Yemeni security forces combat militants, as it emerged Abdulmutallab had received training in the Arabian Peninsula country from an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Washington has tripled its foreign aid to Yemen from 2008 levels, with plans to provide up to 63 million dollars this year. Meanwhile, Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee, who chairs the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection, said she would soon introduce legislation to boost airport security with increased financing. Lawmakers are also expected to debate the increased use of body scanners, which can peer through clothes to create three-dimensional images of passengers to reveal any concealed weapons or explosives. The US Transportation Security Administration now plans to purchase a total of 450 of the controversial scanners, up from 40 currently in use as part of a pilot program. Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz, who introduced a bill in April to limit the use of the full-body scanners, said Friday that "we must carefully consider how to balance safety and security with personal privacy concerns." He has instead proposed to use more bomb-sniffing dogs. The House will return to work next week and the Senate will begin its new session a week later. Several countries, including Britain and Canada, have announced they will introduce body scanners at airports in the wake of the foiled attack. France said it would begin testing their use. 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