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Toyota Expected to Pay $16.4 Million Fine
By David Sessions - Politics DailyToyota is expected to tell the government Monday it will pay a $16.4 million fine, the most ever by an automaker, for concealing information about a pedal defect in many of its models, The New York Times reports. A senior Transportation Department official said the legal documents were still being drafted over the weekend, but that the department expects Toyota executives to sign them at the start of business Monday. Toyota will not admit any wrongdoing, and payment of the fine does not release the company from pending civil and criminal lawsuits. The $16.4 million fine is the maximum penalty ...
Amid Toyota Crisis, LaHood Rolls Along
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 3) -- Ray LaHood was jabbing the air with his finger, insisting to a roomful of lawmakers that, as Toyota recalled more and more flawed cars from the U.S. market, his department wasn't asleep at the switch. "We haven't been sitting around on our hands," the U.S. transportation secretary told Congress. "When people complain, we investigate." Alex Wong, Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood waits for the beginning of a Senate hearing on the Toyota recalls Tuesday in Washington, D.C. To hear LaHood's words and the intensity in his voice, it would be easy to ...
Administration Considers Federal Ban on Texting While Driving
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyTransportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he would support legislation to withhold federal funds from states that permit cellphone texting while driving. LaHood said he would like to see laws that punish states that allow the practice and also reward those that ban it, The Wall Street Journal reported. Congress is considering bills that would do both. Providing both penalties and incentives has been effective in getting states to put in place drunken-driving laws, LaHood told the paper. LaHood has said he favors a national ban on texting while driving but said he needed to study how to ...
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