So moving forward, Takata will be producing millions of replacement airbags. Are the replacement airbags that you are having installed as a result of the recall safe?

If our products are defective and supported by scientific data, we are responsible for that.

So are you telling us that your company has no legal responsibility to determine if airbags are defective and to recall them?

It is the best data we have, that doesn't support the change from regional recall to national recall at this moment.

And let me just ask each of the manufacturers--oh, and one more question for you, Mr. Shimizu: Have any of these individuals, including yourself, been held accountable for these decisions?

I wanted to know why did this request go to Takata alone, either instead of or in addition to the manufacturers?

So in all of these particular cases, you did also give NHTSA the information?

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The Republican legislative approach has ignored this evidence.

Your colleagues have voted over 50 times to dismantle Obamacare and take health insurance away from millions of Americans.

The purpose of our oversight hearings ought to be to inform the legislative process, but in this committee, that is not happening.