A security line at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport earlier this month.
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Several changes are taking place within the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), following outrage over long security lines earlier this month at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

In an internal memo obtained by NBC News, TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger said Kelly Hoggan, the agency's assistant administrator for security operations, has been replaced by Darby LaJoye, the deputy assistant TSA administrator and one-time top security official at Los Angeles International Airport and New York City's JFK Airport. Hoggan has been reassigned to other duties, the memo said. Previously, he was the focus of congressional inquiries into bonuses he received.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.