Members of Congress are calling for more oversight over Clear, the private company that allows members to verify their identities at a kiosk before being escorted to the front of airport security screening lines, after they were briefed on several security incidents.

The Transportation Security Administration briefed lawmakers about two separate incidents in which passengers were escorted by a Clear employee and were able to bypass security checkpoints without showing an ID or actually being a member of the identity-vetting program, according to an aide. Neither person was successfully able to board an aircraft.

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The breaches occurred in January and March of this year, and one included a person who was able to bypass a security checkpoint using a boarding pass that was found in the garbage, according to reporting from Politico. Now, lawmakers are calling for new oversight from the TSA.

“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,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the ranking member of the committee that conducts oversight on the Department of Homeland Security.

“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,” Thompson added in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner.

A growing number of travelers who are enrolled in Clear will now undergo additional identification checks following an incident last summer in which a passenger was able to use the service with another person’s identity. Members previously were able to skip a TSA identification review by scanning their eyes or fingerprints at Clear kiosks.

In that incident, a passenger was able to use another person’s identity to apply for Clear in Alabama. TSA figured out the identity inconsistency after the person tried to bring ammunition through a checkpoint at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The House Homeland Security Committee was briefed on the issue late last year. Rep. Thompson and Rep. John Katko (R-NY) sent a letter to TSA Administrator David Pekoske asking the TSA to require all passengers to have their identities verified by TSA officers.

Thompson and some senators are continuing their call on TSA to begin requiring all Clear passengers to be required to verify their identities with a TSA agent, which could invalidate the company’s purpose altogether. It charges $189 a year to allow passengers to bypass the security line by using an eye or fingerprint scan before baggage screening.

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Clear spokesperson Annabel Walsh told Politico the incidents lawmakers were briefed on 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.”

Clear fired the employees tied to the security breaches and required all employees to redo training on the verification process, according to the company.