i want to also thank mary bauer, the c.e.o. of g.m., as i said to her then and i'm going to repeat now, i admire her fortitude and her service in coming forward to face the questions of our committee and be the face of general motors and the issues that confront us now in car safety. i admire her career at g.m., an engineer who has risen through the ranks, a second-generation employee at an iconic, great american manufacturing company. i've long admired that company and the products that it has produced that have enriched the lives of so many americans over the years. and my hope is that this hearing and this process will be a turning point for the company in facing these car safety challenges. i admire greatly also its dealers and employees. some of them have contacted me, especially connecticut dealers, telling me how they are reaching out proactively to the drivers of these defective vehicles, asking them to bring them to their company so they can be repaired before they do further damage. this great company can reclaim its

stuart: congressman steve gobies is on the committee that will be asking mary bauer the questions.with us. is there a suggestion here that the bailout and the bankruptcy of general motors was the cover for the safety problems within general motors to >> we surely don't know that right now. our prayers go out to the victims of those families because there were over a dozen americans who lost their lives but a lot of serious questions gm and the federal government i going to have to answer about the timeline of when gm knew about this problem, actually made a change in the design of the ignition switch but not until 2014 that gm and the federal government initiated this recall. there were people who've lost their lives in those years in between and why such a delay? stuart: is it possible request nehr who was ceo at the time when this change was made and this falls was found and not fixed, and at some point in the future. >> with an investigation like this, the oversight subcommittee, answers to very valid specific questions and let's see where these answers lead us, and if we bring

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