{"id":336766,"date":"2010-02-18T19:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=51398"},"modified":"2010-02-18T19:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:58:12","slug":"breaking-toyota-ceo-accepts-invitation-to-testify-before-the-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336766","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Toyota CEO accepts invitation to testify before the House Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/akio_toyoda_wide_main_lexus_a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Toyota&#8217;s CEO Akio Toyoda said that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/02\/17\/toyota-ceo-promises-tighter-safety-controls-says-he-wont-appear-before-u-s-congress\/\">he will not appear before U.S. lawmakers at hearings<\/a> scheduled for the end of this month. However, he said he would consider appearing before Congress if he was invited. Earlier this morning, Rep. Ed Towns (D-New York), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform<a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2010\/02\/18\/congress-invites-toyota-ceo-to-testify-at-hearing-sets-rsvp-deadline-for-tomorrow\/\">, sent Toyoda an official invitation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from Toyoda, he has accepted Town&#8217;s offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have received Congressman Towns\u2019 invitation to testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 24 and I accept,&#8221; Toyoda said. &#8220;I look forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tuoJHom4ezUIH7fXsDqlAhrEUrs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tuoJHom4ezUIH7fXsDqlAhrEUrs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tuoJHom4ezUIH7fXsDqlAhrEUrs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tuoJHom4ezUIH7fXsDqlAhrEUrs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=UoqKeOPyqLU:RI3ebmkn6Ic:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Toyota&#8217;s CEO Akio Toyoda said that\u00a0he will not appear before U.S. lawmakers at hearings scheduled for the end of this month. However, he said he would consider appearing before Congress if he was invited. Earlier this morning, Rep. Ed Towns (D-New York), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent Toyoda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}