Issues
USA Today Editorial: Secret settlements vs. your safety: Our view
Selfish wishes of a few should not override public interest.
What people don’t know can hurt them — as proven repeatedly by a system of secret justice that has grown up inside the courts.
General Motors’ handling of its Chevy Cobalts with faulty ignition switches is the latest example. GM has settled several claims by victims or their loved ones — on the condition that the terms remain secret.
Markey on GM Recall: While GM Nods, NHTSA Shrugs – 6/18/14
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742
Lawmaker outlines years of inaction by traffic safety watchdog that led to deaths due to faulty ignition switch
Senator Edward Markey Statement on CAS Report to DOT Inspector General
6/10/14
Below is a statement from Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, reacting to today’s letter from the Center for Auto Safety to the Department of Transportation’s Inspector General that highlights a Center study that found multiple sources of information that NHTSA failed to use to open an investigation into the faulty GM ignition switch that led to at least 13 deaths and dozens of injuries. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Markey on GM Internal Investigation: We Need This Accounting to Become Accountability
Thursday, June 5, 2014
CAS Releases Critical Study Of NHTSA’s Investigatory Process to DOT Inspector General
June 10, 2014
(202) 328-7700
CAS Letter to DOT Inspector General Calvin Scovell
June 9, 2014 The Honorable Calvin L. Scovell, III Inspector General U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., 7th Floor Washington, DC 20590 Dear Inspector General Scovell: The Center for Auto Safety (CAS) is pleased that you have decided to investigate the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) role in the delayed recall…