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GM slow to act on recalls, House documents show

April 13, 2014   Guest Author

FILE - In this April 1, 2014 file photo, General Motors CEO Mary Barra listens as she testifies before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington. Documents from a House subcommittee show that Barra received an email about a steering problem in the Saturn Ion in October 2011 — more than two years before the car was recalled. That email message was not related to the safety defects and mishandled recall of 2.6 million small cars with a faulty ignition switch that's been linked to 13 deaths and dozens of crashes, which is the subject of the subcommittee investigation. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Documents released by a House subcommittee show that managers and employees at General Motors were often slow to react to safety problems — and that one part of GM often didn’t know what another was doing.

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