mr. chairman, in our investigate torre process -- drs drs. >> and then you're developing the cafe standards but can't share the information with the congress let alone the american public. at some point people say what is going on? >> mr. chairman? >> that's why mr. kelly made his opening remarks like he did wlachlt is going on? >> and we're very happy to explain in great detail exactly every moment that we worked on this investigation. it was six months of fact find will to get to the point where we felt we should open a formal investigation. we don't take the matters -- we have 40,000 vehicle owner complaints every single year about safety defects. we investigate the same ones. >> i'm over time. want to get to my friend and colleague. let me just ask, were you concerned -- i mean here's the bottom line i think, were you concerned about if you told us last summer, excuse me, told us in october about what was going on, that you would impact sales of the volt and/or impact the negotiations in the cafe standards? that's what we want to know. were you concerned about that? is that why you were