National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 (23 U.S.C. 401 note) to help reduce the number of deaths, injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor…
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 539
- −29.5% in a year
- Rules made final this year
- 27
- 12 proposed
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 207
- 2019 to 2026
Where its power comes from
An agency can act only where a law lets it. These are the laws its rules cite, where its rules live, and the bills that would change it.
Laws it carries out
The U.S. Code sections its rules of the last six years cite as their authority, most cited first, of 68.
Its rulebook
Where the rules it wrote these six years sit in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Track record
What it made final, the cases it brought, and where Congress moved to undo its work.
Latest final rules
The newest rules it made final.
- Eliminating Obsolete Regulations Related to the 911 Grant ProgramOct 6
- The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule III for Model Years 2022 to 2031 Passenger Cars and Light TrucksSep 30
- Amendment to the Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant ProgramsSep 23
- Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213a; Child Restraint Systems-Side Impact Protection; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213; Child Restraint Systems, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 213b; Child Restraint Systems; Incorporation by ReferenceSep 9
- Resetting NHTSA's Fuel Economy Program: Commercial Medium- and Heavy-Duty On-Highway Vehicles and Work TrucksAug 31
- Temporary Exemption From Motor Vehicle Safety and Bumper Standards; Extension of Comment PeriodAug 31
- Temporary Exemption From Motor Vehicle Safety and Bumper StandardsJul 31
- Uniform Procedures for State Highway Safety Grant ProgramsJun 11
Congress moving to overturn its rules
1 disapproval resolution this Congress under the Congressional Review Act; 1 passed at least one chamber.
Who runs it
Its leaders
- Jonathan MorrisonAdministrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Who pays to be heard
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$365M on reports naming it
- General Motors Company$100M on reports naming it
- American Chemistry Council$64.5M on reports naming it
- Jonathan MorrisonAdministrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Department of TransportationThe department it sits in
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.Lobbied it, $365M
- General Motors CompanyLobbied it, $100M
- American Chemistry CouncilLobbied it, $64.5M
- Honeywell InternationalLobbied it, $55.6M
Its leaders
The people the Senate last confirmed to its offices, one record per office. A confirmation date is not proof someone still serves.
Who tries to sway it
Who names it on federal lobbying reports, 2019 to 2026, and who used to work there. Naming an agency is the filer’s account of where work was aimed, not a record of a meeting.
Who pays to be heard
The biggest spenders on reports that name it. A report names several issues, so each figure is the whole report.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$365M
- General Motors Company$100M
- American Chemistry Council$64.5M
- Honeywell International$55.6M
- National Association of Realtors$42.3M
- National Automobile Dealers Association$42M
- Consumer Technology Association$33.7M
- Chevron, U.S.A., Inc.$25M
- Alliance for Automotive Innovation$24.3M
- 3M Company$21.4M
- Ford Motor Company$18.7M
- Beer Institute$18.4M
- Apple, Inc.$18M
- Nissan North America, Inc.$17M
- Information Technology Industry Council$14M
- Waymo LLC$13M
- National Association of Manufacturers$11.9M
- Volvo Car Corporation$11.8M
- American Honda Motor Co., Inc.$11.5M
- National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies$10.4M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- K&L Gates, LLP10 clients
- Holland & Knight LLP6 clients
- Cozen O'connor Public Strategies4 clients
- Venable LLP4 clients
- Elevate Government Affairs, LLC3 clients
- Bracewell LLP3 clients
- The Manning Group, LLC2 clients
- Pendulum Strategies, LLC2 clients
- Signal Group Consulting, LLC2 clients
- Merevir Consulting2 clients
- Alpine Group Partners, LLC.2 clients
- Robert N. Pyle & Associates, Inc.2 clients
- Storm King Strategies, LLC2 clients
- Tai Ginsberg & Associates, LLC2 clients
- OGR2 clients
- Griffin Strategies, LLC2 clients
- Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP2 clients
- Carpi & Clay, Inc.2 clients
- Pace, LLP2 clients
- Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, LLP2 clients
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here: the most recent 10 of 13.
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