William Tauzin: “I wanted to cite another example of how the gentleman's committee has worked on a problem in America that was awful, the…”

“I wanted to cite another example of how the gentleman's committee has worked on a problem in America that was awful, the Firestone tire failure problem just last year. When the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce did the deep investigations of Firestone and followed through in the current cycle of Congress, through to a point where not only did Firestone itself begin to fix its own problems, but it is reestablishing its name, it is beginning to hire back its people, its products are beginning to find their way back into the marketplace with confidence again; and it has now realized that it cannot have a defective product out there. It is doing much better today, I should report to the American public; but we in Congress, after those very extensive hearings, those awful hearings where we looked at so many people who had died on the highway because of the failure of tires on the traveling roads of our country, we in Congress acted swiftly. We amended for the first time in 30 years the highway safety laws of our country.”