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The brook lawson lawsuit. Brook, i cant see the picture it might be up on the wall. Shes in my 11th Congressional District of georgia. If it not for the brook lawson lawsuit and she was killed. The fact that her lawyers figured out that the ignition switch part model from 2008 was different from model years 05, 06, and 07, would we even know about this ignition switch problem today . Would we even be aware of it . The answer is, yes, because there was an open and at that point, significant investigation going on at that particular point. And certainly, there was information and evidence that w...

I now convene this hearing of the oversight and investigation subcommittee entitled the gm ignition switch recall investigation update. I thiank my colleagues and presenters for being here. Ms. Barra, when you were before this committee almost three months ago you could not answer many of the subcommittees questions about why it took General Motors years to figure out why the air bags in the cobalts, ions, hhrs were not deploying when they should have. It took gm years before finally issuing a safety recall. Now mr. Valucas has made public his report on the gm fiasco in which he concludes it d...

I dont know, but i hope so. I know that for every mick jagger in the world, there are 10,000 musicians who are in the trenches and theyre all younger. Theyre all younger too. [laughter] and they depend on those royalties that theyre not getting. And, you know, lack of a performance royalty, ill just say this quickly, is kind of, its kind of a way of saying music should be free. If music should be free, im willing to have that discussion when musicians arent the only ones who arent being paid. And i really do want to hear from the broadcasters, too, because youve inherited your Business Model. ...

Recording artists and singer song writers who do value pandora because it is the only outlet, the only Distribution Platform available for them to find an audience that loves their music. Ms. Cash . That is what a lot of us are calling the exposure argument that we are seduced into thinking if we allow these performances without pay that we will get exposure therefore drive consumers to buy our records. That may or may not be true but the point still remains we dont have control over those copyrights and we are not paid fair compensation, we are not paid fair market rates. As i said before, th...

Sirius xm is well positioned to offer testimony on these copyright issues. In 2013, we paid approximately 325 million in royalties to Record Companies, publishers, song writers and artists. We have paid over 1. 8 billion in music royalties since we launched service 11 years ago. Id like you to take away four key themes from my testimony. First, parity. Radio is radio whether it is am, fm, satellite. All companies should pay for the music they use on the same ba s basis. Continuing to exempt the terrestrial Radio Companies that dominate radio listening with over 90 of the market and generate ov...