The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States.The TSA was created as part of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act sponsored by Don Young in the United States House of Representatives and Ernest Hollings in the Senate passed by the 107th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on November 19 2001.
