U.S. Senators took turns lambasting the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration during a subcommittee hearing for failing to discover sooner the problem with General Motors faulty ignition switch that is cause of 19 deaths and the recall of 2.6 million vehicles.
Senator Claire McCaskill, who chaired Tuesdays hearing, blasted the agency for not doing more to get to the bottom of the problem by exercising its powers, including subpoenas, to do so.
That reflects obviously on an agency that is perhaps more interested in singing kumbaya with the manufacturers than being a cop on the beat, she said.
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