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
I used to work for a company come and Large Companies of about 20,000 employees. Our insurance ran for all of us was around 400 a month. Thats the full cost to the company. For the Health Insurance. Now, and what weve got here is a situation that were trying to fix this and if we want to fix this what we would really do is say, take the Health Insurance, turn it all into individual policies. In its companies wanted to pay for each employees insurance, they could pay it is an individual policy. In other words, each individual policy, and theres a model for this. Aflac does this all the time. Host can you wrap this up very quickly . Caller if they wanted to do this host we got the point. Guest thanks. Personal with regard to sincerity i hope you realize that we are very sincere that the Affordable Care act isnt going to work, its not good for america to help america gets the message thats what weve been saying since we got elected as majority of house and 2010. With regards to the idf, y
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