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All right, this hearing will come to order. Today we revisit the tragic management failures at General Motors that killed people. First i want to acknowledge in my opening remarks then from my viewpoint the ceo of General Motors, mary barra, has stepped up and with courage and conviction has confronted head on the problem and the Corporate Culture that caused it. Some see the Record Number of recalls at General Motors as a problem. I see it as a good sign. Second, i want to briefly say that i th...

Subcommittee and other governmental bodies as well as gm am in third the review and reinforcement of delphis Safety Policies and procedures. My first point, i would like to provide some information pertaining to delphi postured a reduction of Replacement Parts for General Motors. The vehicles that were recalled were not in production several years ago. As a result it has been a Monument Task to build over 2 million switches in a matter of months. We have installed three new production lines and ...

Assistant u. S. Attorney and before that, i clerked for the honorable vincent j. Brennan of the Michigan Court of appeals. As you are aware, the investigation conducted by Anton Valukas revealed the failures behind the ignition switch recall including failures on the legal staff. When ms. Barra testified before this committee on april 2, a number of you, including you, chairman mccaskill, raised serious and important questions about the performance of the legal staff. And our responsibility in t...

To mark royce, executive Vice President of global product development. Ive supplemented existing legal sources within with attorneys from two outside law firms to make sure that we have the proper level of engagement. Ive also appointed a well respected outside law firm to conduct a zerobased review of our litigation practices. Ive met with the entire u. S. Legal staff to discuss the valukas reports findings and to set High Expectations for the staff Going Forward. These changes and others will ...

Products,t had other im assuming the other products met their requirements, but when they come together they form a saidm and as mrs. Bauer earlier, its someone elses job to make sure that those products work in total harmony when they come together. Back ande gone understood our role in that. Ofhink the new legislation how Safety Systems interact from , and we perspective will work diligently with General Motors over this issue. In 2006 gm authorized a changed in the ignition switch but did not...

Absolutely. Damian paletta and james tankersley, thank you both for being with us today. Thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] like hsbcake a case that got a 1. 9 billion settlement levied at them a year ago. Of the deferred prosecution theyment is they admitted have laundered as much as 850 million for a pair of central and south American Drug cartels. We are talking that not only did they commit minor financi...

Responsibility and liability in this entire issue. Have you met with them and with the Engineering Team that was responsible for this switch . I have not met with the specific Engineering Team that is responsible, but i am speaking to leadership and those individuals are being interviewed as part of the investigation. Now, going back, did you say that this was a defective part when you talked about it earlier . We have learned when we knew when the recall decision was made and we later went back...

Person was the one that decided not to recall the defective version . Where did where in the timeline is that . I dont know but that is part of the investigation that were doing. Do you know when it was that it was discovered, what year, what you know, where in the timeline that it was discovered that, in fact, a new part number was not assigned . I became aware of that after we did the recall and the timeline was put together. So that was just in the last month or so. Is that right . Thats when...

It would vibrate and tear the keys off the teeth. But never once did i have that shut off. For me, they made pretty good ignition switches. Can you tell me how many models gm makes today . Around the globe over 100. 100 different models. Can you tell me how many ignition switches they make . Well we sell if you have 100 models how many different ignition switches would there be. I cant answer that question i dont know. Gm has proven i dont understand this reinventing the wheel. That every car ha...

Switch. If you had a heavy key chain like my mom key chair or if you had if you were short and bumped up against the ignition with your knee, it could cause this key to switch right off. Mr. Chairman, we now know that these switches were defective from the start. In february of 2002, gms ignition switch supplier dell if i informed the company that the switch did not meet gms minimum specifications. But gm approved it anyway. Now, yesterday we sent ms. Barra a letter about this decision. I would ...