The session will now come to order. I thank everyone for coming on this going away day. My plan is that we will get as many Opening Statements as we can before votes and then hopefully all of you will come back to talk to our witnesses. I recognize myself, for five minutes. As the Consumer Protection subcommittee, we are committed to ensuring the safety of the american people. We have addressed a number of auto safety issues over the years, Holding Hearings on the airbag defects and General Motors ignition switch defect. We had a hearing last year on drug drugged driving. Which is been revised in recent years. But we really havent addressed the number one cause of death on americas roads, drunk driving. More than 10,000 deaths. About 30 of all fatal crashes are caused by drunk driving each year. That translates into almost 30 people dying in crashes every day. Or one person every four minutes in 2017. That is not counting the number of people who are seriously injured in drunk driving
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The session will now come to order. I thank everyone for coming on this going away day. My plan is that we will get as many Opening Statements as we can before votes and then hopefully all of you will come back to talk to our witnesses. I recognize myself, for five minutes. As the Consumer Protection subcommittee, we are committed to ensuring the safety of the american people. We have addressed a number of auto safety issues over the years, Holding Hearings on the airbag defects and General Motors ignition switch defect. We had a hearing last year on drug drugged driving. Which is been revised in recent years. But we really havent addressed the number one cause of death on americas roads, drunk driving. More than 10,000 deaths. About 30 of all fatal crashes are caused by drunk driving each year. That translates into almost 30 people dying in crashes every day. Or one person every four minutes in 2017. That is not counting the number of people who are seriously injured in drunk driving
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