mr. friedman. >> thank you, chairman. chairman mccaskill, ranking member heller, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. to begin, i would like to say that on behalf of everyone at nhtsa we are deeply saddened by the lives lost of the crashes involving the general motors switch defect. the victims, families and friends, several of whom i know at the hearing yesterday and some who maybe are today have suffered greatly. and i'm deeply sorry for their loss. safety is nhtsa's top priority. our employees go to work every day trying to prevent tragedies like these are our work reducing dangerous behaviors behind the wheel, improving the safety of vehicles, and addressing safety defects has helped reduce highway fatalities to historic lows not seen since 1950. in the case of the reseller recalled general motors vehicles, we are first focused on safety and ensuring the general motors identifies all vehicles with defective ignition switch, fixes these vehicles qui

mr. friedman for being here today with your testimony. when i think of nhtsa i think of the green bay packers linebacker number 66. >> nhtsa is the national highway traffic safety administration. an organization whose mission is to save lives by reducing issues like drug driving, unbelted occupants, vehicle safety. finding vehicle defects. >> i just wanted to get that on the record. i know what it is. a lot of people, when they hear that all they, -- day, i wondered what it is. do you have any way to track consumer complaints to auto dealers short of waiting for them to reach out to you? to have any way to track people coming in? the car is stopped and it died? you have to wait for somebody to come to you? >> we have early warning data, which tracks the cases where warranty services are provided on vehicles. >> anytime a warranty services provided, we are notified. >> we are notified of accounts. we have an account of those. and the part that is associated with. >> did you get -- when you get that? >> once a quarter. >> what kind of marke

mr. friedman, inspector general's, management alert yesterday that said in part, and i'm going to submit this for the record, the department subject matter experts have confirmed that at least one electric grid related greeted by the commission staff should have been classified and protected from early at the time it was created. this document and others, the essence of this content may in whole or in part have been provided both federal and industry officials in an unclassified setting. that was not appropriate. the messages integrating into stripping this document let us to the permanently conclusion that the commission may not possess adequate controls for identifying and handling ossified national security information. -- classified. could you just comment about what you are doing, again, to implement these and what additional steps that you may be taken as the acting chair to make sure that this doesn't happen again? >> well, thank you for the question, madam chairman. we are meticulously following, first of all, the instructions of the inspector general's management alert, which me

mr. friedman's people.and ultimately, what we need to do is develop a crisp and clear internal process so we understand what information we're creating and have a process where the right professionals get a chance to weigh in on what level of classification it should have. >> okay, thank you. mr. cauley, i understand that you testified and i generally agree that the private sector is doing a very fine job under difficult circumstances. there are lots of, as miss kelly said, a lot of different views, different sizes of companies, different nature of entities that are involved in providing this critical infrastructure for our country. but when you said that you thought that the industry was doing all that it could, i understand that in the metcalf incident that there were no cameras facing to the outside perimeter, only to the inside perimeter. can you comment about that? and when and what actions has the industry taken since to maybe face the cameras in a different direction to see who might be in the area t

mr. friedman, with the understanding you just got in that position a couple months ago and for the last 12 years you were in groups that focused on green cell technology, we understand you're not comfortable with automobile engineering and safety, you're more than welcome to ask some of the support staff behind you. i wanted to find out how nhtsa is communicating to the public about this recall. and i believe we have a poster here. i went to your website to see what i could learn, and dot we have that image available? and what it shows, this is all. this is all i could find on your one site about the recall notice. no information about the broader recalls, about parts replacement, investigation, or anything. i can't even click on this. it simply says get rid of your car key fobs but there's nothing else that a person could do. can you fix this can you fix this website so people can get more useful information, please? >> congressman, if there's added information that should be on there to make sure that people can get to the information available on our website we'll take those steps. righ

mr. reid: at 10:30, there will be a roll call vote on the nomination of michelle friedman. if cloture is invoked, there would be up to 30 hours for debate prior to vote on the confirmation. unless an agreement can be reached upon disposition of the friedman nomination, there will be a cloture vote on the weill nomination to be administrator of the wage and hour division over at the department of labor. there could be up to eight hours of debate prior to a vote on confirmation of the weill nomination. if floss further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until is a good during the reagan administration outside group of former members of congress and no politicians that come in and do a complete audit of government from top to bottom. they have a piece of legislation or charter that created it. it has a purpose if it is not fulfilling its purpose or doing it within a reasonable budget it should be cut or eliminated. let's take head start. this came in with the highest motivation.