Orrin Hatch actually said...

If I could ask one more question, in your testimony you say that NHTSA prefers recalls to rulemaking.

I appreciate all you folks testifying here today. It is very important to us.

Now, I do not know how many agencies have a regulatory road map like this, but it seems to me this supplements the actual rulemaking.

Some scholars have written that judicial decisions in the 1970s have led NHTSA to effectively abandon rulemaking.