allen ray floyd was killed after losing control of is2006 chevy cobalt. i understand that the family is in attendance in the hearing today. others have been killed because of gm's defect sif ignition switch. the fact is that we do not know the full extent of the fatalities and injuries and accidents but evidence is growing through this investigation that gm could have addressed this long ago. gm knew about this problem as far back as 2001. gm used the switch in vehicles anyway. the committee sent you a letter about this issue and documents were received yesterday that show that these in adequate switches were approved by gm in may of 2002. i have a document here in tab 54 in the binder as well. this document shows that the force required to turn the ignition switch was too low. that specification is clearly marked not okay. does this document show that dm officials were aware that the ignition switch did not meet company standards in 2002. >> if if this was provided to the company english engineers. >> in 2004 they were coming up with ways to fix the prob

allen ray floyd was killed after losing control of is2006 chevy cobalt. i understand that the family is in attendance in the hearing today. others have been killed because of gm's defect sif ignition switch. the fact is that we do not know the full extent of the fatalities and injuries and accidents but evidence is growing through this investigation that gm could have addressed this long ago. gm knew about this problem as far back as 2001. gm used the switch in vehicles anyway. the committee sent you a letter about this issue and documents were received yesterday that show that these in adequate switches were approved by gm in may of 2002. i have a document here in tab 54 in the binder as well. this document shows that the force required to turn the ignition switch was too low. that specification is clearly marked not okay. does this document show that dm officials were aware that the ignition switch did not meet company standards in 2002. >> if if this was provided to the company english engineers. >> in 2004 they were coming up with ways to fix the prob