Lawmaker Scolds TSA Chief for Soaring Airport Security Waits
- TSA predicting long lines this summer as passengers grow
- House Homeland Security Committee holds hearing on screening
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Longer airport screening lines expected this summer are unacceptable and have come after months of warnings by airlines and airports, the chairman of the House of Representatives’ Homeland Security Committee said.
Representative Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, said at a hearing Wednesday that the U.S. Transportation Security Administration hadn’t reacted swiftly enough to the growing wait times and hadn’t used its resources appropriately.