Jay Rockefeller: “Losing our dominance in science and high-tech fields has led to a loss of 687,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000.”

If confirmed, I will commit to review all of the statutory requirements and congressional deadlines.

Furthermore, if we are going to potentially burden our government agencies with increased costs that will be associated with complying with the bill, then I think Congress should also provide these agencies with sufficient funding to deal…

I thank Senator Leahy for attempting to address my concerns about this bill. I thank his committee staff for working with my committee staff to insert clarifying report language.

Because Mr. Shimizu's testimony left so many questions unanswered, then Chairman Rockefeller and Senator Nelson sent a letter to Takata requesting documents and information regarding the company's defective airbags.