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Senate Committee’s No Vote Incenses Lawmakers Seeking Auto Safety Reforms
WASHINGTON — The push to impose criminal penalties on auto executives who fail to disclose deadly automobile defects hit another roadblock last week when a Senate committee voted down such a proposal.
Lawmakers and safety advocates who were pushing to institute criminal penalties for such behavior expressed dismay as that and a series of other auto safety reforms — including barring used-car dealers from selling vehicles with unrepaired recalls — also failed to proceed.
Senate Lawmakers Propose Sweeping Auto Safety Reforms
For Immediate Release
July 9, 2015
Contacts:
Bryan Gulley (Senate Commerce Committee Democratic Office) 202-224-7824
Josh Zembik (Blumenthal) 202-224-6452
Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742
Senate Lawmakers Propose Sweeping Auto Safety Reforms
Measure includes jail time, unlimited civil fines for concealing safety defects
Key Bipartisan, Bicameral Auto Consumer Protection Legislation Introduced
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2015
Contact:
Neal Patel/Michawn Rich (Heller) 202-224-6244
Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742
Tom Borck (Rokita) 202-225-5037
Nicole L’Esperance (Blumenauer) 202-225-4811
Key Bipartisan, Bicameral Auto Consumer Protection Legislation Introduced
U.S. Senators Heller and Markey Team with U.S. Reps. Rokita and Blumenauer to Introduce Bill on Both Sides of Hill
CAS Statement on H.R. 1181, Vehicle Safety Improvement Act of 2015
Statement on H.R. 1181, Vehicle Safety Improvement Act of 2015
Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director
June 2, 2015
House panel won’t approve NHTSA defect budget boost
Washington — National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Mark Rosekind on Tuesday sounded the alarm after a House panel approved a spending bill that doesn’t boost the agency’s budget to investigate auto safety defects.
Last week, a Republican-led House appropriations subcommittee approved a spending bill that doesn’t adopt the Obama administration’s request to triple NHTSA’s defect budget and double staffing. It essentially held the agency’s budget at the current level.
At Senate Airbag Hearing, Evasion and Uncertainty
WASHINGTON — Ever since automakers began recalling millions of vehicles with defective airbags made by the Takata Corporation in 2008, the company has remained largely silent in the United States.
On Thursday, that silence ended when a senior Takata executive testified during a Senate hearing that was called to examine a defect in the company’s airbags, which can explode violently when they deploy, sending metal debris flying into the car’s cabin. At least five deaths and dozens of injuries have been linked to the problem.
Now, it’s NHTSA under fire
Lawmakers blast failures in GM crisis, want reform
WASHINGTON — In a rare display of consensus here, Republicans, Democrats and safety advocates are coming to the conclusion that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is in dire need of reform — even if they can’t convince the agency of that.
Now, it's NHTSA under fire
Lawmakers blast failures in GM crisis, want reform
WASHINGTON — In a rare display of consensus here, Republicans, Democrats and safety advocates are coming to the conclusion that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is in dire need of reform — even if they can’t convince the agency of that.