That would be his decision?

I hope that you will come back to this panel with different answers. If not, I would respectfully suggest that this company is not well served by your continuing.

I hope you will reconsider, as I hope you will on the Candice Anderson issue.

We will work with that claimant to try and cure that deficiency.

But he has not, at least so far as I'm aware, definitively stated whether then applicants can postpone the decision as to whether to accept the offer from the fund or bring private litigation.

If GM is really serious about changing its culture and imposing a new era of truth-telling and accountability, the place to start is with your legal department.

I think you can fairly gather that this committee is listening with a fair amount of incredulity to the contention that the General Counsel of this company had no knowledge about this defect or about the concealment of the defect and the…

I happen to believe that the compensation fund has to be expanded.

the lawyers for GM actually enabled cover-up, concealment, deceit, and even fraud.

This letter provides the requested follow-up to your question to me at the July 17, 2014 Senate Subcommittee Hearing.

I wonder if you would agree with me that corporate officials who conceal or hide dangerous defects that can cause deaths or injuries ought to be held criminally culpable.

Ms. Barra, will you recommend to the Governor of Texas that he pardon Ms. Anderson?

The key to safety, in my view, is taking these cars off the road, not taking keys off the chain.

I particularly want to thank Senator Blumenthal and his staff. They provided some valuable, constructive suggestions as to what this protocol should look like.

I now ask for a second reading en bloc and I object to my own request en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection having been heard, the bills will be read a second time on the next legislative day. ____________________

Thank you, Mr. President. I am honored to follow those eloquent and powerful remarks by my friend and colleague from Illinois, and I am particularly impressed and moved by his comments on young people coming across the border that deserve…

I understand there are two bills at the desk, and I ask for their first reading en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will read the bills by title for the first time. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 2609) to…

if there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it adjourn under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:24 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 9:30 a.m…

this agreement sets up as many as three rollcall votes tomorrow: at 10:15 a.m. a cloture vote on the White nomination; at 12:20 p.m. a vote on confirmation of the White nomination, if cloture is invoked; and at 2:10 p.m. a cloture vote on…

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, and that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the Journal of proceedings be…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 461, S. 517. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 517) to promote…

I have found that there simply have been no answers to some of the questions that I have posed in letters to the agency

I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to, the bill, as amended, be read a third time and passed, and the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. The…

I think one of the unexplored areas here has been the potential for retaliation against whistleblowers.

I would like a commitment from you that the agency will respond to my inquiries in writing as soon as you are able to do so