Originally Posted by SAT Lawyer

At IAH, you will clear immigration, pick up your checked bags at the baggage carousel, clear customs, drop your checked bags at the baggage re-check belts to your right just after you walk outside customs, and then you can decide to turn right, take the escalator upstairs, and join most of the coming-off-an-international connecting passengers at the TSA queue or walk through the Terminal E exit, take the escalator or elevator up, and join the regular Terminal E departures TSA checkpoint. The latter option is almost always faster.