GM CEO Barra to testify on recall

GM CEO Barra to testify on recall
Mary Barra, chief exeuctive of General Motors, is scheduled to testify April 1 to a House panel investigating the company’s long-running problem with
defective ignition switches that have been linked to 12 deaths, the committee said late Thursday.
House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders also said they had invited David Friedman, acting head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, to
testify at the hearing.
This will be the first in what could be a series of hearings by the House panel, which began an investigation after GM’s decision to recall 1.6 million of
its vehicles because of the ignition problem that first surfaced more than a decade ago.
While the ignition defect began long before Barra and Friedman assumed their current positions, their testimony “will be essential to getting answers about
what went wrong,” committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said.
The hearing will be conducted by the panel’s oversight and investigations subcommittee.
— Reuters
Also in Business