Well, let me assert for the record that it is true.

The National Labor Relations Board...ensures protection of workplace rights for union and nonunion workers alike.

It is good to be here with you.

But hasn't the Chamber filed a lawsuit against the NLRB for its rule requiring employers to post a notice explaining employees' rights to unionize?

Thank God for recess appointments, that we were able to appoint Richard Cordray as the leader of the CFPB because it is the law.

We are a country of laws. And the function of the CFPB is to protect American consumers.

Your Agency dropped the ball on this, sir.

there is no evidence of collusion between GM and the Department of Treasury that would suggest that the government is running GM.

So far we have seen no evidence to support the implication that NHTSA has allowed politics to guide its decisionmaking.

I felt, given the primacy of that American automotive industry to our strategic industrial base, including automotive, steel, aerospace, and shipping, that the prudent thing to do would be to make an attempt to rescue it.

I am concerned that an effect of this hearing could be to undermine technology that is critical to both protecting the environment and ensuring the success of the U.S. auto manufacturing industry.

I have sold a lot of cars in my lifetime, and the only time you put a SPIF on a car is when it won't move on its own.

What we need to know, Administrator Strickland, is whether there was a valid reason for so much time to pass or whether, as the majority has concluded, or has at least offered, that NHTSA was acting in a politically motivated manner.

If you are truly protecting our lives and protecting our best interests, if you are looking at all the costs involved, both health care and economic, then why so long?

So then do you concur with other witnesses that lithium-ion poses no greater risk than gasoline vehicles for fire hazard and, like gasoline vehicles, those risks can be managed?

So it's your intention as the CEO of General Motors to have the Volt lead the way toward, let's say, electric and hybrid electric vehicles revitalizing our auto manufacturing sector by providing products that consumers would find…

We don't want to be buying lithium-ion batteries from China in 5 years when we can develop the infrastructure and skills to make them here in the United States.

I think that is what the chairman keeps referencing, and I think Mr. Kucinich feels the same way, and we all do.

One of the biggest stumbling blocks to America's economic recovery is that corporations can legally buy elections and then influence policies which move millions of jobs out of America which escape taxation by offshoring profits, which…

So it's your experience, then, that the manufacturing of the Volt will put America essentially on the map with respect to these electric vehicles; is that right?

I would say, first of all, you and I share the concern about safety.

It would be very bad, I think, for our economy to do anything that would try to demolish the potential for electric vehicles.

I hope this committee's activity on this issue... to discourage companies like GM from continuing to innovate and advance technologies that will ensure U.S. competitiveness.

I thank the gentleman from Oregon for yielding. On its surface, the resolution seems to make sense about making sure we pass a budget, and that's of national importance. I think that all of us who are here understand the underlying…

So you created the circumstances under which the fire could occur. This wasn't created independently through the vehicle, an intact vehicle, without you having to essentially rig it to go on fire, is that right?