Congressional lawmakers are voicing concern after security incidents involving TSA CLEAR, including one where an individual made it through security with a boarding pass they found in the trash.

In at least two reported incidents, employees with CLEAR allowed individuals through security checkpoints who did not show ID, according to a report, and those individuals were not enrolled in CLEAR's identity-vetting service.

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Lawmakers received briefings on both incidents, which occurred in January and March.

In one case, a traveler recognized their boarding pass was for a different airport, and in the other, a traveler used a pass they found in the trash to get through CLEAR.

These security lapses and another from 2022 involving a false identity and ammunition have led to demands to address CLEAR passengers, the report noted.

"After being briefed that there have been multiple security breaches over the past year due to CLEAR’s lax security controls, it is apparent that the company puts its bottom line ahead of the security of our aviation system," Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said in a statement.

"Each passing day the homeland is at greater risk until TSA acts to completely close these security vulnerabilities that it was alerted to last year. We cannot afford any additional delay."

CLEAR recognizes the concern generated by the incidents, and "security is job one and we have a zero tolerance policy," CLEAR spokeswoman Annabel Walsh said.

Walsh maintains the two occurrences were "isolated" and "had nothing to do with our biometric system and were the result of an ambassador not following our strict protocols after which we took immediate action," she said.

However, lawmakers such as Thompson and Senate appropriators are calling for a requirement that would mandate all CLEAR passengers to show their ID to TSA, the report noted.

Such a requirement would appear to conflict with the appeal of CLEAR, which allows travelers to bypass traditional security via eye or fingerprint scans.

"CLEAR will continue to partner with the DHS and TSA to implement the new industrywide digital identity standards that we have been working on together since 2020," Walsh said.

A July announcement from the agency declared TSA would require passengers with CLEAR to scan their IDs with TSA's Credential Authentication Technology machines.

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"TSA has established a timeline with milestones for this to occur," TSA spokesman R. Carter Langston said.

"Currently, all passengers except [Registered Traveler] participants are required to present identification at the CAT unit, where it is available."