Transportation Security Administration
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in the wake of 9/11 to strengthen the security of the nation’s transportation systems while ensuring the freedom of movement for people and commerce.
- Civilian staff, August 2026
- 59,342
- −10% in a year
- Rules made final this year
- 1
- Organizations that lobbied it
- 182
- 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 36.
- Transportation Security Administration
- Administrative
- Training to operate certain aircraft
- Regulations and orders
- Public transportation security training program
- Definitions
- Railroad security training program
- Over-the-road bus security training program
- Definitions
- 6 U.S.C. 1517
- Cybercrime
- Fees for credentialing and background investigations in transportation
Its rulebook
Where the rules it wrote these six years sit in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Bills that would change it
Bills this Congress that name it, the most recently moved first. A bill that names an agency is not a law.
- HR 10040: No TSA Data for ICE ActIn committee
- HR 8701: Transportation Security Administration Transfer Act of 2026In committee
- HR 8411: Original Legislation to Give TSA Employees a RaiseIn committee
- HRES 1138: Recognizing the critical missions of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and…In committee
- S 4127: Transportation Security Administration Pay Act of 2026On calendar
- HR 7941: Pay TSA Act of 2026In committee
- S 4073: Transportation Security Administration Pay Act of 2026In committee
- S 1180: Abolish TSA Act of 2025In committee
- S 997: Rights for the TSA Workforce ActIn committee
- HR 2086: Rights for the TSA Workforce ActIn committee
- HR 1159: Honoring Our Fallen TSA Officers ActIn committee
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.
Who runs it
Its leaders
- David CumminsAdministrator of the Transportation Security Administration for a term of five years
Who pays to be heard
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.$106M on reports naming it
- Amazon.com Services LLC$69.7M on reports naming it
- Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (D/B/A Airlines for America)$42.6M on reports naming it
- David CumminsAdministrator of the Transportation Security Administration for a term of five years
- Department of Homeland SecurityThe department it sits in
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.Lobbied it, $106M
- Amazon.com Services LLCLobbied it, $69.7M
- Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (D/B/A Airlines for America)Lobbied it, $42.6M
- Delta Air Lines, Inc.Lobbied it, $38.5M
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.$106M
- Amazon.com Services LLC$69.7M
- Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (D/B/A Airlines for America)$42.6M
- Delta Air Lines, Inc.$38.5M
- American Association of Airport Executives$28.5M
- Occidental Petroleum Corporation$25M
- Airports Council International -- North America$19.7M
- American Airlines, Inc.$17.3M
- Jetblue Airways Corporation$14.4M
- American Fed of Government Employees Afl-Cio$13.8M
- National Business Aviation Association Inc.$11.5M
- Alaska Airlines, Inc.$10.7M
- Transportation Trades Department Afl-Cio$10.2M
- Southwest Airlines$9.84M
- Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association$9.77M
- Air Line Pilots Association$9.6M
- American Petroleum Institute$7.08M
- Interstate Natural Gas Association of America$6.94M
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen$6.87M
- Smiths Group Services Corporation$6.86M
Who files the lobbying
The firms on reports that name it, by how many clients they filed for.
- Monument Advocacy13 clients
- Holland & Knight LLP5 clients
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP5 clients
- Crossroads Strategies, LLC4 clients
- Hill East Group, LLC4 clients
- JTR Strategies LLC3 clients
- Cassidy & Associates, Inc.3 clients
- The Consilio Group3 clients
- Van Scoyoc Associates3 clients
- Rosemont Group2 clients
- OGR2 clients
- A1.9 Strategies LLC2 clients
- Prime Policy Group2 clients
- Ptsa Formerly Known as "Mark S. Morgan2 clients
- Squire Patton Boggs2 clients
- Miller & Chevalier Chartered2 clients
- Elevate Government Affairs, LLC2 clients
- BGR Government Affairs2 clients
- Atrio Consulting Group, LLC2 clients
- Carol G Holladay & Associates2 clients
Former staff now lobbying
Lobbyists whose filings list a past job here.
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