Coming up, a house hearing on all t auto safety and a recent recall of cars. And then a hearing on domestic terrorism. The house senate and subcommittee held a hearing on whether auto recall regulations should be overhauled. This is two and a half hours. The committee will come to order. Good morning. I want to welcome everyone to our hearing today on examining ways to improve vehicle and roadway safety. I will recognize myself for five minutes for the purpose of an Opening Statement. Certainly lives depend on the safety of cars, safety of trucks and on the roads themselves of the united states. And on the whole, the data is good around the decrease in fatalities against mines driven, b miles driven will you the hearings have underlined the severity of problems that do exist and there is no reason for going slow when it comes to safety and deception cannot and will not be tolerated. It is incumbent upon us, the national Highway Safety committee and others to be in complianc compliance.
Sympathetic to what senator rand said. In this speech, which was part of his filibuster, he also cites my book and the argument is our liberty should be presumed to be valid and government should only restrict it if they have a good reason and if they have reason, they should be able to show proof and facts, which they were unable to do with the bake shops. This is the fourth in a series of 12. What weve done if you want to learn more about these cases, if youre learning like we are and youre not a law, we have a book available for you that were selling at cost. It is written by tony morrow, 12 cases we selected for the series. If you go to cspan. Org landmark cases, you can find out how to order it and we have people ready to ship it out as soon as possible so you can follow our series. Let me say thank to you our guests for helping us understand lochner versus new york. It was a pleasure. Our landmark series cases continue next monday. Our landmark case is scheneck versus united stat
For five minutes. Ms. Mithal, let me ask you to clarify. You mentioned there would be one of your start with security business initiatives in austin, texas. Is thats correct . Thats correct. Whats the date you gave for that . November 5th. I wanted to repeat that because although my Congressional District is a little north of austin it obviously will Effect People in my state. Dr. Rosekind, thank you for being here. Thank you for always being very generous with your time and very forthcoming whenever they are questions. Thank you for opening up the doors of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration to come and visit with you and see the good work that you and the men and women employed there the good work that youre doing. I have a copy of the Inspector Generals report. This was issued in june of this year. Can you take just a moment and go through which recommendations have been implemented . Certainly. Just as context, ill be clear that one of the things we did was actually
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Will have Opening Statements herd, ms. F, mr. Kelly. After that, we will hear from then, after wend have heard from the witnesses, we will go to questions. So with that, i will give the first Opening Statement and again, welcome, everyone. Its interesting, the age we live in, of new technology and communications. The Incredible Technology that we see in take for granted every day, we are hearing a new we are entering a new era in transportation technology. Theres some of the older panelists, members of an audience who remember when you used to open the hood of a car and could take out the various parts and identify everything. Figure outd a phd to what is in there, and its capabilities are just astounding. A lot of safety features and cars we didnt have before, but we today will address the issues relating to, again, what we call the internet of cars and look at some of the implications of that technology. I think some of this was highlighted some time ago when that vehicle was hacked.