"today's hearing is very personal to me, because I come from Michigan, the auto state, the auto capital of the world."
"we will follow the facts where they lead us."
"I have a sad sense of deja vu as I sit here today."
"General Motors has recalled 2.5 million vehicles due to a defective ignition switch."
"GM has known for years about this safety defect and has failed to take appropriate action to fix the problem."
"Because GM didn't implement this simple fix when it learned about the problem, at least a dozen people have died in defective GM vehicles."
"In 2002 GM approved the use of faulty ignition switches in Cobalts, Ions, and other cars."
"But in a briefing last week, Delphi told committee staff that these new switches also did not meet GM specifications."
"Well, your own executives were informed that a lot of these cars, that those model years had switches that were just as defective as the 2003 to 2007 cars, that--those cars were recalled, but you didn..."
"But you recalled those vehicles. You recalled them later."
"But not when you knew there was a problem."
"Well, wasn't it misleading to say that that company didn't tell them sub par switches may have been installed in the first place?"