You mr. Valukas and your team have compiled a report about serious internal shortcomin kuc that General Motors has contributed to the companys failure to report a safety defect in the chevrolet cobalt. I know that mrs. Barra serves with grave concern about the report finding, and i look to her and the gm leadership for establishing more responsible and communicated clufs in gm. We all recognize your report is not an end to the investigation. It does include a number of comments on recommendations which i feel gm should commit to implementing in full. My questions to mrs. Barra today will require simple yes or no answers. Now, to mrs. Barra. We have learned that cobalts ignition switch was redesigned, but it was not given a new part number. This obfuscated the companys certainly investigation. And contributed to a delay in defects and subsequent recalls. Mr. Valukas suggests in his report that gm adopt procedures that include a specific protocol for reviewing authorizations of added spe
Who, again, face a very important condition as to whether i dont know what the risk of whether nhtsa has assessed the risk, with regard to power steering, whether thats significant or not. But a lot of consumers out there, im sure, are wondering whether they should be driving or not. Again, i would encourage them to call the Customer Engagement center and we can talk about the situation. Okay. I yield to the ranking member. I just wanted to ask you, a question, miss barra, since theres a little time here. So you had testified that out of the roughly 2. 6 million of these dollars were recalled, you guys have set 400,000 parts out to your dealers, is that right . Produced and ship. I am sorry . Yes. Yes, roughly. As of monday it looks like only about 177,000 of these vehicles have been repaired. And you had testified a little bit earlier so thats 177,000 vehicles out of 2. 6 million vehicles. And weve talked about this before. Is this one of our big concerns on this committee, is how do
The brook lawson lawsuit. Brook, i cant see the picture it might be up on the wall. Shes in my 11th Congressional District of georgia. If it not for the brook lawson lawsuit and she was killed. The fact that her lawyers figured out that the ignition switch part model from 2008 was different from model years 05, 06, and 07, would we even know about this ignition switch problem today . Would we even be aware of it . The answer is, yes, because there was an open and at that point, significant investigation going on at that particular point. And certainly, there was information and evidence that was accumulating as they were going forward, pointing to the fact that they had nondeployments. Pointing to the fact they had fatalities, and pointing to the fact that the switch had something to do with it. That smacks of a big coverup to me. And after gm learned of this change, it took months for gm outside experts to confirm they had a change. Why did this take so long . I dont have an answer fo
To be a concern about the growth of government and government power in general. And think the Obama Administration in the past 18 months has stepped into a number of woodchuck holes that have a them look not particularly competent and graceful, and not concerned about congressional power. The republicans made a good effort at saying he is becoming an imperial person, you doing stuff on his own, which of w congresse cannot get to pass anything, so he has to do things on his own. In his a backandforth issue. The backandforth on this really does help republicans. The economy has seemingly but it has gone through fits and starts in the past two months. Itcould see it slow a bit if is not Getting Better ands lives. That could help democrats. More time to talk about 2016 later on. Thank you for being with us. An f on transparency and freedom of information. I think my colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade, whether they are liberal or conservative. The freedom of information pro
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