Jim, not this exit.
Representative DeGette questions Jim on February 23, 2010:
Ms. DeGette. I want to ask you a couple of questions. The
first one is, you just told Mr. Markey that this is not the first
time that you folks have looked at the ETCS, and you folks
provided a number of documents in response to our February 2,
2010, request. As far as you know, has Toyota provided all of the
documents relating to previous tests of the ETCS?
Mr. Lentz. Again, I can't you if it's a test or it's just
the development cycle of the ETCS.
ANSWER, JIM, you are UNDER OATH. YOU MUST ANSWER. BY LAW. OTHERWISE, YOU CAN BE PROSECUTED.
Ms. DeGette. I mean, we know that you have provided
thousands of pages of documents relating to the development. What
we want to know is, are there additional documents relating to the
testing of the ETCS that you just testified that you folks that
it's not the first time that you have looked at it. And I want to
know, are have we received all of the documents relating to
previous testing of the ETCS? Because that's what we care about
here.
Mr. Lentz. I understand. I have to check. I don't know
specifically.
Ms. DeGette. If there are additional documents, will you
provide us those to this committee?
Mr. Lentz. Of course. Of course.
Ms. DeGette. Thank you. Now the only document that Toyota
has produced to us that we've seen that claims to address the
phenomenon of sudden unintended acceleration is this February 2010
report that we've been talking about that was conducted by
Exponent. My first question is, that report was commissioned in
December of 2009 just 2 months ago by Toyota's defense attorney
Bowman & Brooke, correct?
Mr. Lentz. Yes, I believe so.
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In many such interchanges, members of Congress asked Jim for documents and answers to be supplied later. But where are they? The public deserves to see the answers.