Voluntary program. Otherwise people have the same rights they have today. They have the same rights, but youre trying to block those rights in the Bankruptcy Court yes or no . Our intent is to do a Compensation Program and the right thing for these individuals. But yourestructing your lawyers to back off the bankruptcy case. So if mr. Feinbergs parameters dont mitt but a Competent Court finds they might, not going to matter to you. Ill move on to another question. Im concerned a little bit about the fact that your Legal Department didnt pick this up. Were any of the lawyers fired for not being dill gept . There were four different functions in which individuals were fired. Legal being one of them, engineering, quality and public policy. Because it did concern me that the trooper youngs report was sitting in the gm files in the Legal Department for a period of about six years and only one person opened the fire during that time period and that was the legal assistant. Let me ask you thi
Thats what were focused on. And so again you want to make sure everybody is fully and fairly compensateded. Thats correct. So why are your lawyers still trying to seek protection in the Bankruptcy Court . We are not going to revisit those decisions. I think what were doing is going above and beyond with this Compensation Program to get to the people. Mistakas a unique series of. Ask your bankruptcy lawyers to defend them and get the shield from the Bankruptcy Court in the course and not have to deal with these cases that come up and to only let the the only solution being mr. Feinberg . Mr. Feinbergs program is a voluntary program. Otherwise people have the same rights they have today. They have the same rights, but youre trying to block those rights in the Bankruptcy Court yes or no . Our intent is to do a Compensation Program and the right thing for these individuals. But yourestructing your lawyers to back off the bankruptcy case. So if mr. Feinbergs parameters dont mitt but a Compe
Had they were looking at something that it meant nothing to them as we were able to locate and find. It was not they were totally unaware of the issues concerning the switch not deploying any aspect of it. One individual who did know all of the facts and had that information was mr. Degiorgio. The other engineers who were on the email train it meant nothing to them. So, theres an email im holding it here. On your report. It discusses implementation of the new page 102 and the footnote. I believe thats right the quote is increased torque forces to be within specifications and it was sent to five gm employees on june 2nd, 2006. But we have also obtained another document that was not included in your report and this document indicates that another gm contract engineer may have approved the 2006 change. Its a production part a approval process report obtained by delphi through gms global quality tracking system. It is dated june 1st, 2006, and it lists gm supplier quality engineer. A gm su
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