strickland. are going to stand in recess until -- for one hour. they are gathering on the house floor. we must recess during this period of time, recess for one hour, have you come back in one hour. we will go right to questionings there by members of the committee. >> yes, ma'am. >> so this [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> they testified before the committee about an experiment he had run. he reported he had been able to induce sudden unintended acceleration without having the computers detected a problem. in briefings with staff, several engineers have described his work as sensible, reasonable, and a legitimate starting point for an investigation into potential causes. these have discussed a variety of real world again second lead to the resistance their response to his testimony was not to investigate his work seriously. the object is credibility. he has taken a different approach. they have invited him to the

strickland and mr. lentz for their testimony today and ongoing cooperation with the coittee's investigation. mr. lentz, we appreciate toyota and its outside counsel ted hester for the company's responsiveness to our several requests for documents and for substantive briefings. i wish i could say we received the same level of cooperation from toyota's consultant, exponent. unfortunately, exponent withheld information from the committee and has even modified responsive documents before producing them to us in direct violation of the committee's instructions. it's ironic the firm toyota hired to conduct anndependent investigation has behaved like it has something to hide from this committee. i next turn to mr. burgess for an opening statement, please. >> thank you, chairman stupak and as always thank you and chairman waxma for convening this hearing and welcome to our witnesses here today. our fir hearing on the toyota problems almost three months ago to the day at that time we had a lot of quesons, but no

strickland ad testified. in our first hearing on sudden uninnended acceleration, dr.3+ experimeets he had conduuted on toyota cars and trucks. he reported that e haa been+ having the vehicle commuters+ detect any problem.. severallacademics and+ independent engineers have described his work as sensibll, reasonable, and legitimate as a starting point for an investigation into potential acceleratton. they have discussed with the committee a variety of real-%-wo this sort of thing that he induced in his laboratory. testimooy was not to his attack his credibility and -pmooives. nhtsa has taken a different approach with dr. gilbbrt and discuss hii work with feeeraleer investigating sudden, unintended is that correct? >> that is orrect.. engineers in nhtsa have bben in it is my understanddng that he3 within the next tto weeks, where he will be given accees to our engineers and others his work. it is importtnn to ggt tooan answer. we welcome his participation. >> oyota has described hhs work as beinn phony, parlor t

strickland. toyota relies on two primary justifications for its assertion that electronics plays no role in sudden unintended acceleration. we've already discussed one of the shortcomings, one of the justifications, the work, the engineering firm exponent has done for toyota and the problems with that. the other justification toyota relies on is the premarket testing that toyota's own engineers do before manufacturing vehicles for sale to the public. our committee staff conducted a transcribed interview and two engineers in japan and asked them multiple qstions about the testing calls. we learnedhis premarket testing has significant limitations. toyota only conducts this test during the design phase of the vehicles. as one of the toyota engineers we interviewed told the committee, quote, once, quote, mass production is initiated then that means the design is completed so we don't conduct anything additional, end quote. so mr. schickland, is this premarket testing strike you as adequate to identif

we've had tom strickland from that same day who spent the weekend there with admiral landrieu. we have been working on this and have been in houston twice at the command center making sure that the work streams that are moving forward are the ones that are the best, the best global scientists bringing their minds to bear on what is happening there at the command center as the decisions are being made with respect to leak containment, to lead the stoppage, with respect to the response and the shore protection. i've been with the director of the u.s. geological survey at that command. and tom strickland has set up an array of involvement with the department of interior in each of the command centers, in cooperation with the national park service to make sure that we're protecting the very special coastline of the gulf coast along with the great fish and wildlife resources which we have a responsibility to protect. and we will unless the secretary for minerals involved with us as we move forward, both in the investigations as well as other administrative matters that we are dealin

administration whitewater rafting on the colorado river, interior department chief of staff, tom stricklanding the grand canyon while crude oil fanned out on the gulf of mexico, and, they were on a work focus trip and his agency is coordinating the federal response to the gulf oil catastrophe and serves as assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks and was airlifted out of the canyon three days after the leak began when the administration realized it was far worse than they thought, originally. martha: you know the story, police officers got him just in time, but we're learning new details about this. and, of course, we all know that it is nearly ten years, since september 11th. so, how does a flagged terror suspect manage to get through security? think about what it is like when you go through security and he boarded that plane. the times square bombing suspect, faisal shahzad was on the no-fly list as of that morning and the airlines were e-mailed, to add him to the no-fly list. he bought his plane ticket in cash on his way to the airport. and airlines are not required to report tha

and larry strickland guiding another and the support we have from the rest of the administration. one of my pleasures at being at the commerce department and looking at the tech policy landscape is i get to see other aspects of it as well. most people don't know it, but the commerce department is very sprawling in its composition and in its mandate. to the south we have the patent and trademark office and we've got an incredible leader down there. we have our headquarters across the street. and then up in the north in gaithersburg we have nist which is led by another extraordinary executive pat gallagher. as somebody who's at a senior staff level, it's really a pleasure of mine to be able to work with a very, very strong suite of executives going from the pto through commerce department headquarters and out to nist. and one of those strong executives is cam, our general counsel. cam has spent years in private practice. many years as a senior partner at the law firm of minst levin which has a strong communications and e-commerce practice. cam was until he became general counsel the

begin the public conversation, i want to tell you about in asp and institute conference that larry stricklandand i attended last summer in colorado. our assignment there was to look at four different scenarios for the development of broadband. and we were joined by figures p, nonprofit knowledge and free press and academics from across the country. we were divided into four groups. each group analyzed a different scenario. and all four groups independently, people who are not shy about disagreeing with one another highlighted one driver or one risk in, and for the continued development of the digital society. and every one of them framed it in exactly the same terms, trust, trust. so for me, this striking convergence and fences validates a guiding principle for our work as we embark on this new framework. it's working for trust. the government has a vital role, a vital role to play in bringing together many stakeholders like you today, to ensure a foundation of trust that can be a driver for a secure and a sustainable digital economy. and as evidenced by today's symposium, we are proud to be

places like ohio, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania, illinois, those are an area -- host: is ted stricklandeading in the polls? guest: absolutely. it is already a horse race. host: nathan daschle, what is your one biggest goal that you want to have? guest: probably california, texas or florida. i know you asked for one, but it is difficult when you have 37 states. but those three are the three that we're looking at because they all have republican governors and we all have very strong democratic candidates. host: when is your recollection? guest: in june. host: and right now and jerry brown is running unopposed? guest: he is unopposed. host: and in california? guest: steve poizner and mikelyn. -- meg whitman. there is a real civil war going on between the far right, who is perceived as the establishment candidates -- and i think a civil war is taking place in california, florida. you can virtually pick any state with the governor's race this year and you will see that. guest: it is a wild stretch of imagination to say that when you have a lot of candidates running against each other it is a

like our governor strickland and we hear president obama talking about alternative energy, and manufacturing jobs stay, for instance in the parts of solar cells and wind technology. so i'm wondering what kind of jobs we've seen increased in that area, what kind of pay increases of jobs that have increased? and also i have a request of c-span. there is some topics you guys don't touch. i wish you would invite profession i can'tor kohl on to talk about iran. i wish you would do more shows about is the israeli-palestinian still in conflict? and why no one has been held account questionable for the prewar intelligence. thank you. guest: the caller mentioned general motors. of course, general meters went through bankruptcy as did chrysler and were allowed to re-open with a lifeline from the government. one of the conditions was they had to basically shrink themselves to the capacity they had for making cars much better aligned with the demand for those cars that was out there and from general motors' management, we've heard some good signs that they're general rating cash, that they're seeing sal

i pushed governor strickland to create a foreclosure task force in the state of ohio and i was proud to serve on that task force, but what we realized way before the task force was formed was that so many of these problems were federal in nature. they were federal in scope, yet, the federal government was doing very little to regulate wall street, to regulate the mortgage industry. and my colleague, mr. ellison, mentioned predatory lending and the failure to enact predatory lending legislation. i'll remind the viewers and i'll remind this body, mr. speaker, that it was in 2000 that congresswoman stephanie tubbs jones -- god rest her soul -- from ohio passed legislation here in the house and they could have enacted that in 2000. they could have enacted it in 2001, in 2002, in 2003, in 2004, in 2005, in 2006, every year she brought forward legislation concerning predatory lending because she understood the impact this was having in neighborhoods across ohio and across the country. yet, they failed to act. but we knew that these things were being created on wall street, like mortgage-ba

places like ohio, wisconsin, michigan, pennsylnia, illinois, those are an area -- host: is ted strickland leading in the polls? guest: absolutely. it is already a horse race. host: nathan daschle, what is your one biggest goal that you want to have? guest: probably california, texas or florida. i know you asked for one, but it is difficult when you have 37 states. but those three are the three that we're looking at because they all have republican governors and we all have very strong democratic candidates. host: when is your recollection? guest: in june. host: d right now and jerry brown is running unopposed? guest: he is unopposed. host: and in california? guest: steve poizner and mikelyn. -- meg whitman. theris a real civil war going on between the far right, who is perceived as the establishment candidates -- and i think a civil war is taking place in california, florida. you can virtually pick any state with the governor's race this year and you will see that. guest: it is a wild stretch of imagination to say that when you have a lot of candidates running against each other it is a c

and secretary salazar, he launched this reform and he put tom strickland in charge. i thought that pretty much had worked. and mr. newman, this safety record, i thought, was pretty impressive that the m.m.s. had conducted 26 inspections on deepwater horizon in the past five years. is that unusual? is that what has been happening in the past? what's the story on the swat teams referred to by salazar? is that an inconsistency and saying we are doing something we should have done before. >> there are two parts to your question. one has to do with the relationship between transocean, the drilling contractor and the m.m.s. and the way i would characterize our relationship with the m.m.s. is they show up on our drilling rigs regularly, unannounced. they conduct thorough inspections of the drilling rigs. they know what to look for and they are thorough and rigorous. >> when they come up unannounced, what kind of frequency? >> the frequency was 26 times on the deepwater horizon. they are out there once a month, every other month. they are out there routinely. >> you were the

as we began the public conversation, i want to tell you about a conference that larry strickland and i attended last summer in colorado. our assignment there was to look at four different scenarios for the development of broad band. we were joined by leaders of the public sector, from congressional staffs, from the fcc, from private industry, carriers, programming providers, nonprofit leaders, free press, academics from across the country. we were divided into four groups. each group analyzed a different scenario. all four groups, independently, these are people who are not shy about disagreeing with one another, highlighted one driver, one risk in common for the continued development of the did digital -- a digital society. everyone of them framed it in exactly the same terms. trust. trust. for me, this striking convergence, consensus, validates a valued principal for our work as we embark on this new framework. it is working for trust. the government has a vital role to play in bringing together many stakeholders like you today. to insure a foundation of trust that can be a driver