WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W. Va.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), requested documents and information from Honda North America, Inc., regarding defective airbags manufactured by Takata Corporation. The letter also requests further information on Honda’s failure to report 1,729 incidents of […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, issued the following statement after Honda announced that it had underreported the number of deaths and injuries linked to defects in its vehicles. “Honda’s failure to report important safety information to NHTSA is unacceptable. Even if such omissions […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W. Va.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), this week requested documents and information from Takata Corporation regarding the defective airbags manufactured by the company. The Senators’ letter to Takata Chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada follows the Committee’s hearing […]
Statement for the Record Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV “Examining Takata Airbag Defects and the Vehicle Recall Process” I want to thank Senator Nelson for chairing this important and timely hearing on yet another safety crisis in the automobile industry that has killed and maimed Americans for reasons we must uncover. He and Senators […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today issued the following statement on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to raise the E-Rate program’s funding cap. “The E-Rate program is one of the most successful and consequential technology and education initiatives ever […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.— The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science,and Transportation’s nominations hearing scheduled for Tuesday, November 18,2014, at 2:30 p.m. has been postponed until further notice. ###
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today issued the following statement after President Obama urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality. “I have repeatedly called on the FCC to use its full statutory authority […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today issued the following statement after U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the launch of a new federal website that will for the first time give consumers a reliable one-stop resource where they can […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today raised questions over the privacy practices of the web-based social media application “Whisper,” after media reports alleged that WhisperText LLC had violated its own privacy policies after promising users that the application is the “safest place […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, today released the following statement after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John Pistole announced his retirement. “As a friend of Administrator John Pistole, I am sorry to hear he will be moving on from the Transportation Security […]