{"id":335668,"date":"2010-02-18T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/02\/18\/toyoda-officially-invited-to-attend-house-oversight-commitee-mee\/"},"modified":"2010-02-18T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:08:00","slug":"toyoda-officially-invited-to-attend-house-oversight-commitee-meeting-on-toyota-safety-update-guess-whos-coming-to-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/335668","title":{"rendered":"Toyoda officially invited to attend House Oversight Commitee meeting on Toyota safety – UPDATE<\/b>: Guess who’s coming to D.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just yesterday, Toyota<\/a> Motor Company’s president Akio Toyoda (yep, the grandson of the company’s founder) indicated that he had no intention of attending<\/a> a February 24 Congressional hearing before the House Oversight Committee. Instead, Toyoda said that Yoshimi Inaba, president of Toyota’s operations in North America, will appear on behalf of of the automaker.<\/p>\n

When pressed further, though, the New York Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that Toyoda said he would consider attending if he received a formal invitation, none of which had been extended. Well now, that little oversight has since been corrected. Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) has sent a letter – the text of which you’ll find pasted after the break – formally inviting Toyoda to attend the upcoming Toyota Gas Pedals: Is the Public At Risk?<\/em> hearing.<\/p>\n

Oh, and Toyoda should also feel free to submit “written testimony for the record, of any reasonable length,” and to “be prepared to provide a five minute opening statement and answer questions posed by Members of the Committee.” Sounds like a nifty little shindig, we’ll be waiting for our own formal invitations in the mail. We’ll bring the popcorn.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/em><\/strong> According to a statement released tonight, Akio Toyoda will testify before Congress next week, saying “I look forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people.”<\/em> Full statement after the jump.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Image: Junko Kimura\/Getty]<\/p>\n

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