Ed Markey

Can I just ask you to do this? Kim Kopf is sitting over here. Her sister died in a passenger-side airbag accident.

How can you justify calling for a mandatory nationwide recall of Takata driver-side airbags while continuing to allow a patchwork of voluntary and regional recalls for Takata's passenger-side airbags?

It is our problem, sir; it is being fixed.

You should be saying 'yes' right now to that, Mr. Schostek.

How can you trust a company, Mr. Friedman, who, in answer to my question today about whether or not they support your nationwide recall for driver's side, says they cannot give an affirmative answer to that?

Her sister was in Arizona, okay? It goes up to 110, 120 degrees in Arizona in the summer.

It just seems to me that you, as the agency chief, should err on the side of safety.

Mr. Schostek, until 2 days ago, most of the recent actions taken related to defective driver-side airbags were limited to so-called humid states.

I think that your company is making a big mistake in not supporting this recall wholeheartedly.

Look it, these airbags are the same, whether they hurt the lieutenant or they killed Kim Kopf's sister.

I respect the Senator from Louisiana, and there is no more fierce advocate for this pipeline in our country. She has been a relentless advocate for that pipeline. I am not going to speak on this issue today, but I look forward to a much…

It is unconscionable that Turkey has become the principal source of funding for ISIL, and if we can shut that down, we do almost immeasurable damage to their ability to finance this war.

It is absolutely imperative that we pass legislation that requires a disclosure of all of this information when it is in the hands of the Government.

Again, if you're in a passing lane, and you're moving at 60 miles an hour, and you have a flat, you're panicking.

Will be made public this year, there's a big problem.

I believe that burden should fall onto the industry that is causing these problems.

People really want a cop on the beat. They want an agency which is looking at the industry that they're responsible for and making sure that they cannot harm the public.

That's just the bottom line on it. You're at risk.

In 2007, NHTSA asked for and received a secret document from GM related to the death of two Wisconsin teenagers.

Again, but it's--the safety bags not deploying is a safety issue, but a car's ignition not working and shutting off the car automatically is a separate safety issue.

These two bills address many of the problems and failures identified in the GM oversight hearings held by this Committee.

Do you agree that if it had been made public that it could have avoided unnecessary deaths having occurred?

But do you agree? Will you say that NHTSA got it wrong when it found that cars stalling on their own was not a safety problem?

You do agree that's a separate issue and that that was something that the public should have been warned about, do you not?

When you agreed with GM that cars stalling on their own did not pose a safety problem, that is wrong.