About before. In may of 2014, independent researchers published a report that identity higher than expected emissions which prompted investigations by the ep epa. When did vw first become aware of this researche. End of april, when it was published. I got it in may, i got information about this. What steps did vw take to evaluate the conclusions of the research at that time. First of all, to acknowledge that emission violations or higher emissions are not legal. Secondly, the engineering departments were supposed to recheck those testing results on our own equipments in order to validate this. And thirdly, to correct this with the respective software actions which have been implemented at the end of last year . Who implemented this, and who was responsible for it . Indeed the Software Applications management are being done in germany at the engine and drive Time Department within the research and development division. Okay. The epa describe a series of presentations or discussions with
Could members of the media please move out of our way so we can begin the hearing . Mr. Horn, you can sit in that chair. Thank you. Thank you and good morning. We now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee on volkswagen emissions cheating allegations, initial questions. Let me start off by saying my first car was a volkswagen. It was a 76 beetle. I learned a lot about cars. I could take that thing apart continued to work. I did all the maintenance myself because volkswagen had a legacy as the peoples car to be people friendly. I loved that car. Loved it a lot. Not so much as to call it brad, but i loved that car. But i trusted the car to get me around. I trusted volkswagen would continue to build a reliable car. That word trust alone as you know is the key factor in Building Customer loyalty. That trust is what helped build volkswagen because we believed its company looked out for customers first. Then three weeks ago car owners around the world were shock
Parenthood provides. I thank you for your testimony and i thank the chairman for their time. There are six minutes remaining in this vote, so the committee will stand in recess and reconvene immediately after the votes. The House Judiciary Committee is taking a break now. The committee looking at the operations of planned parenthood today. And as the hearing today chairman Bob Goodlatte and congressman john conyers paid tribute to congressman edwards who n california who has died. While recess is in place, well show their opening statements. They include, of course, comments about planned parenthood. Good afternoon. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on planned parenthood exposed, examining abortion procedures and medical iktings at the nations largest Abortion Provider. And ill begin with my openings statement. Before i go to the statement on that id like to take a moment to remember the life of former congressman William Donelan don edwards who passed away this month at the
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And inserted control systems. And we know that during normal road use, the controls were reduced. And the car for producing up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide standards. Owed by we know half a million cars in the u. S. Might be affected by this. Mr. Horn, im glad you came to testify here. While we know all of the things i just talked about, theres a lot more things we do not know. And we need answers for them. For example, volkswagen has not revealed how the device affects the engine. White was installed, and how it was able to evade the tests . You have not revealed when and how the engines equipped will be fixed. Whether the fix will affect fuel economy or performance of the vehicle. You have not revealed what volkswagen told regulators over the last year as epa and the california board were trying to figure out why the emissions were out of compliance. You have not revealed whether the voluntary recalls that volkswagen set in place in 2014 were millemerely a ruse. Were they trying t