Supply to the demand. My time is about to expire. Are there other manufacturers that manufacture an equivalent airbag product that you could institute for your air bag and repair these cars that have already been recalled . Or is that just not technically an engineering wise feasible b . Its required some tests. I would suggest that you look at that. Because the sooner the cars that have already been identified are repaired, the better off youre going to be, in my opinion. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. Thank you very much. The chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. Thank you, mr. Chairman. And thank the witnesses for their testimonies today. I wish i could say i felt better about this situation now than i did when i walked into the room, but i think i feel a little bit more uncertain than i wish i did. I have a little bit of a personal his we with this issue. I was a young Senate Staffer on the Congress Committee in the early 07s when ralph nader came to the congress an
Action . Thank you. And i understand your involvement in the establishment of the act more than ten years ago, and i can understand the disappointment you feel by the shortcomings that have been evidenced by our company, and i want to explain to you what happened. The problem that we had with underreporting in the act is a systematic problem that began at the the outset. As you know, it went into effect in 2003. They did not properly Program Computers and set up systems that would at accurately let data flow and feed into treasury reports. It is difficult for me to say, sir, but that setup continued unchecked until 2011, 2012. You are right that an internal honda associate did mention a concern, as well as a discussion with nhtsa. They asked about the omission of certain incidents in our tread report. We did look into that, sir, in early 2012. We did not look at that effectively. We took action to address that one problem, but sir it did not complete our compliance requirements. Can i
Kevin sack and Manny Fernandez are in dallas. Texas apartment not sanitized for days, more than six months after an outbreak of ebola began its rampage through west africa. Local and federal Health Officials have displayed an uneven and flawed response to the first case diagnosed in the u. S. In the latest indication, state and local authorities confirm thursday that a week after a liberian man fell ill in dallas, and four days after he was placed in isolation at a hospital here, the apartment where he was staying with four other people had not been sanitized and the sheets and dirty towels he used while sick remained in the home. County officials visited the apartment without protection on wednesday night. In a separate story, the new york tooms, shes in liberia, and this story is about the u. S. Effort there. U. S. Effort in africa is bahrly off the ground, two weeks after president obama announced that time was running out in the fight to stem the epidemic. The American Treatment Ce
The life, it creates an immense amount of insecurity among the driving public and obviously my view the burden has to be on the manufacturer and our governmental agencies to take the appropriate steps to revive and restore public confidence. Thank you. Thank you. Now, its the appropriate time to introduce the panel. Ill introduce the panel as a whole, and then well start with takata as the first speaking witness. So today our first panel representing takata, Hiroshi Shimizu. Shimizu, sorry. Yes. From honda, Rick Schostek. From bmw, chris westbrook. From toyota, abbas saadat. Appreciate all of you being here. We will go from right on my left, your right, and start with mr. Shimizu. But before i ask you to start, i want to recognize that youre appearing with a translator, because english is not mr. Shimizus first language, and while the committee will allow mr. Shimizu to confer with the translator for the purpose of clarification, he will be required to answer the committees question in
Coming up next, some of todays white house Cyber Security summit and california beginning with pres. Obama president obama talking about information sharing between government and private industry. Then Homeland Security secretary discusses the same issue with Business Leaders from American Express, Pacific Gas Electric and Kaiser Permanente. Later the ceos of mastercard, aig, and bank of america sit down with Congress Secretary for a discussion on what companies can do to better protect against Cyber Attacks. Ladies and gentlemen, to introduce the president of the United States please welcome Stanford University president john hennessy. [applause] welcome back, everyone. It is now my great privilege to introduce our nations 44th president , barack obama. He came to office just after the Global Financial crisis in 2,008. His presidency his presidency has been marked by the complexity and challenges of governing in a time when people are more interconnected than ever. And the idea of Co