mr. friedman? welcome, mr. friedman. have you heard the testimony in the ante room? >> yes, sir -- yes, mr. chairman, i have. >> okay. what we're going to do is forego the statement because of the lateness of the hour. we're going to have our senators and you can make your points in response to the questions. i'll defer my questions and do cleanup at the end. senator thune. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. friedman, of course we've been here today 20 discuss yet another apparent failure within the automobile industry. and these issues with the faulty tack at to air bags are just the latest in a long line of high profile recalls that have been the focus of multiple hearings held by this committee and the house of representatives this year. it's just kind of a general question but i'm wondering if you could should some light on why we're seeing such a flood of automaticive safety issues recently and do you believe that this recent experience indicates a broad and systemic problem within the automobile industry? >> senator, one of the reasons why ranking member, one of th

mr. friedman, that from my perspective, there's a higher responsibility that as an agency we have to call you to. and i thank you, mr. chairman. and you will acknowledge because you heard the testimony today that each of these automobile manufacturers are handling the recalls in a different way, which is all the more, adding confusion. you heard chrysler say they're not going to start until the middle of december. and of you got to have concerns about whether these automakers are responding appropriately. >> i have serious concerns. we have actually had to push chrysler before in previous cases to accelerate the production of parts to get notices out to consumers. i don't accept after hearing what they said. i don't accept that there's any reason why they should wait to notify consumers about these recalls until they have the parts. consumers need to know there is a risk in chrysler vehicles because of these air bags. >> do you have under law the ability to find them if they don't respond quickly? to replace these defective air bags? >> we have authority under law to require an accelerate

mr. friedman? welcome, mr. friedman. have you heard the testimony in the anteroom? >> i have. >> what we're going to do is forego the statement because of the lateness of the hour. we'll have our senators and you can make your point in response to the questions. i'll defer my questions and do cleanup at the end. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. friedman, another apparent fail in the auto industry. and these issues with the faulty air bags are the latest in the long line of recalls the focus of multiple hearings held by this committee and the house of representatives this year. >> i was wondering if you could shed some light on why we're seeing such a flood of safety issues recently. and do you believe this recent experience indicates a broad and systemic problem within the industry? >> senator, one of the reasons why ranking member, one of the reasons why i think we're seeing the increase in recall is because the auto industry is running scared. the auto industry realizes, one, that nitsa has been pushing them hard to establish a new normal. where we expect them to r

mr. friedman thanks for being here today. and i take your comments about going after the lbo manufacturers to push them. about what about your responsibility? you have heard the head of takata say today the maximum they can commit to produce our 300,000 replacement parts per month. they help is to go 450,000 but they're unwilling to commit to anything more than 300,000 replacement parts per month. it will take three years even if they meet the 450,000 gold, the hope is to years. isn't that unacceptable? >> absolutely unacceptable. >> will you commit to use the power that you have under the motor vehicle safety act, to order that to use replacement parts from other makers said their banks. >> senator really use our ability. >> i don't want a state cancer but yes or no. this is a pretty clear question. you will use your authority to do the right saying but i want to know to recommend to the secretary of dissertation you will order the automobile manufacturers to use replacement parts even if it means takata sharing proprietary

mr. friedman. we are here today to discuss another failure with the automobile industry with the faulty takata air bags is just of series of defects held by the house this year. could you shed some light why we're seeing such a flood of automated safety issues recently and do you believe this experience indicates a broad and systemic problem within the automobile and industry? >> one of the reasons why is it is running scared. it realizes that teeeighteen is pushing hard for a new normal to recall vehicles quickly to notify quickly they're also very concerned as they should be of batches congress has taken to shed light on the industry and also reacting to media attention. it is the shave it took all of this attention for them to do so. i called them to washington to talk about the need of the new normal for recalls no more high 88 behind information or attorney-client privilege or waiting to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt there is a problem. they need to act much more quickly and nhtsa these dra

fauci and friedman, mr. lindberg, vet good general who's here, we will ask you to join us after they testify to be able to answer questions from really this robust participation that we have. opening statements will be from the four witnesses. now, we have before us an administration request to contain and fight ebola. an emergency spending request of $6.2 billion. because the ebola, in my mind, meets the criteria for emergency spending. it's sudden, unanticipated, unforeseen, urgent and temporary. the request includes funds from the state department and u.s. id for $2.9 billion. the department of defense to develop technologies to fight ebola and shorten vaccine development, $112 million. the department of health and human services to contain ebola, both with cdc in west africa and remember, cdc is both here in our country and also in west africa. to also fortify, strengthen domestic capacity to treat ebola with treatment centers available in every state and the appropriate personal protective equipment for

fauci and friedman, mr. lindberg, vet good general who's here, we will ask you to join us after they testify to be able to answer questions from really this robust participation that we have. opening statements will be from the four witnesses. now, we have before us an administration request to contain and fight ebola. an emergency spending request of $6.2 billion. because the ebola, in my mind, meets the criteria for emergency spending. it's sudden, unanticipated, unforeseen, urgent and temporary. the request includes funds from the state department and u.s. id for $2.9 billion. the department of defense to develop technologies to fight ebola and shorten vaccine development, $112 million. the department of health and human services to contain ebola, both with cdc in west africa and remember, cdc is both here in our country and also in west africa. to also fortify, strengthen domestic capacity to treat ebola with treatment centers available in every state and the appropriate personal protective equipment for

fauci and friedman, mr. lindberg, vet good general who's here, we will ask you to join us after they testify to be able to answer questions from really this robust participation that we have. opening statements will be from the four witnesses. now, we have before us an administration request to contain and fight ebola. an emergency spending request of $6.2 billion. because the ebola, in my mind, meets the criteria for emergency spending. it's sudden, unanticipated, unforeseen, urgent and temporary. the request includes funds from the state department and u.s. id for $2.9 billion. the department of defense to develop technologies to fight ebola and shorten vaccine development, $112 million. the department of health and human services to contain ebola, both with cdc in west africa and remember, cdc is both here in our country and also in west africa. to also fortify, strengthen domestic capacity to treat ebola with treatment centers available in every state and the appropriate personal protective equipment for