Political Quotes

“For some time now, the Energy and Commerce Committee, its Subcommittee of Oversight and Investigations as well as its Subcommittee of Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, have been looking into recalls and automobile safety. We have heard about problems within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and about problems within the automobile industry, itself. There is a lot to fix, and there are provisions to get after those issues in terms of recommendations from the Inspector General's Office. Serious flaws of the basic operation of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration were revealed earlier this year in a widely reported inspector general's report. In an unprecedented move after the inspector general's report was released, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration publicly committed to a timeline to implement all of the inspector general's recommendations because of the serious and direct impact on NHTSA's ability to fulfill its core mission. You do worry that the direction in which this amendment purports to now go is going to send resources in the wrong direction. It is going to be very, very friendly to the Plaintiff's Trial Bar, but, really, that is not where our focus should be.…”