GM’s Barra Is Short on Answers as Congress Probes Recall
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General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra told a U.S. House committee that the automaker still doesn’t have all the answers that might explain why it waited a dozen years to fix a flaw linked to 13 deaths.
With victims’ families sitting in the audience, Barra tried today to assure lawmakers that an internal investigation being run by Jenner & Block LLC Chairman Anton Valukas would shed light on how an ignition-switch defect was allowed to persist. She also announced the hiring of claims lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, who supervised mass settlements following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.