{"id":336877,"date":"2010-02-18T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/toyota-president-agrees-to-testify-before-congress"},"modified":"2010-02-18T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T00:59:09","slug":"toyota-president-agrees-to-testify-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336877","title":{"rendered":"Toyota president agrees to testify before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Toyota president Akio Toyoda says he will testify at a congressional hearing next week on the automaker&#8217;s recalls.<\/p>\n<p>Toyoda said in a statement he looks &#8220;forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toyoda is the grandson of the Japanese automaker&#8217;s founder. He had said he wasn&#8217;t planning to attend the hearings but would consider appearing before Congress if invited.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota has recalled 8.5 million vehicles globally to address problems with accelerator pedals and brakes. <span id=\"more-20098\"><\/span>The executive&#8217;s appearance before Congress is expected to raise the profile of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/story\/?id=360177&amp;src=143\" title=\"Toyota president agrees to testify before Congress\" rel='nofollow'>DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MVU4M4BtD49zUoi2ot-HCQdqOQw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MVU4M4BtD49zUoi2ot-HCQdqOQw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MVU4M4BtD49zUoi2ot-HCQdqOQw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/MVU4M4BtD49zUoi2ot-HCQdqOQw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=i7qsp4dwaNE:uOAyj7Wabkg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=i7qsp4dwaNE:uOAyj7Wabkg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=i7qsp4dwaNE:uOAyj7Wabkg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=i7qsp4dwaNE:uOAyj7Wabkg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/i7qsp4dwaNE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Toyota president Akio Toyoda says he will testify at a congressional hearing next week on the automaker&#8217;s recalls. Toyoda said in a statement he looks &#8220;forward to speaking directly with Congress and the American people.&#8221; Toyoda is the grandson of the Japanese automaker&#8217;s founder. He had said he wasn&#8217;t planning to attend the [&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-336877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336877","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=336877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}