Transportation Security Administration

While the nation’s transportation systems are more secure than they were prior to 9/11, aviation and our other transportation modes remain high-risk terrorist targets.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was intended to be a lean agency with the flexibility to quickly respond to threats. Instead it has bloated from a modestly sized, pre-9/11 force of 16,500 private airport screeners into a massive, inefficient bureaucracy of more than 60,000.

Committee Republicans have highlighted a number of concerns with the structure and direction of the troubled agency, and are prepared to work with the Administrator and Congressional colleagues to get the agency back on track.

To register a comment or complaint directly with the Transportation Security Administration, click here.

• Background Information on the TSA Screening Partnership Program
• November 19, 2010: Press Release and Letter: Transportation Committee Leaders Call for Review of TSA Pat Downs
• November 19, 2010: Press Release and Letter: FAA License Proposal Embarrassingly Inadequate
• November 5, 2010: Letter Urging Airports to Consider Program Utilizing Private Security Screeners 
• October 19, 2010: Press Release and Letter: Pilot License Fiasco
• September 24, 2010: Mica included in this news report on the state of aviation security
• June 28, 2010: Mica Op-Ed -- TSA Bogged Down In Bureaucracy
• June 25, 2010: Mica Urges New Administrator to Get TSA Back on Track
• June 21, 2010: GAO Report: More TSA Failures
  • Link to GAO report
• May 20, 2010: Mica Calls for Reorganization of Bloated TSA in Wake of Critical Security Report
  • Link to GAO report
• May 20, 2010: Mica Letter to DHS Secretary Calling for Reorganization of TSA
• January 20, 2010: Mica Statement on Withdrawal of Erroll Southers as TSA Administrator Nominee
• January 13, 2010: Mica Op-Ed – “Good Enough” Is Not Good Enough to Lead TSA
• December 28, 2009: Statement of Rep. John Mica on Attempted Bombing of Northwest Flight