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of the 9/11 attacks, Congress had passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATS) which federalized airport security. The Transportation Security Administration was created as a result of the ATS Act. The Transportation Security Administration started to create strict rules to make the airline security a better and safer system. After September 11th, 2001, these new threats meant there needed to be even more procedures added to protect our country from attacks. TSA started by making new guidelines which included; taking your shoes off before going through the screens, banning liquids, passenger and luggage screening, only people with tickets could go beyond the security gates, and the ever changing machinery and procedures used to

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