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GM’s Barra faces grilling from US lawmakers

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, head of GM's internal recall investigation, testify on the GM ignition switch recall during a US House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in Washington on June 18, 2014

Barra returned to testify to a House of Representatives committee panel, after being unable to answer many questions in an April 1 hearing, armed with the results of an internal GM investigation on how and why it took the company more than a decade to recall millions of vehicles after ignition problems were known.

US Lawmakers press GM on report’s findings

FILE - In this file combination made from file photos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra testifies before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, left, and former U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on April 20, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barra and Valukas will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Charles Dharapak, File)

By MARCY GORDON and TOM KRISHER

House members say they still have many questions about General Motors’ delayed recall of small cars, including whether the company’s culture has truly changed.

US Lawmakers to ask Mary Barra can she fix GM

FILE - In this file combination made from file photos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra testifies before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, left, and former U.S. Attorney Anton R. Valukas testifies before the House Financial Services Committee on April 20, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Barra and Valukas will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight subcommittee on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Charles Dharapak, File)

That’s likely to be the underlying theme of many of the questions thrown at the automaker’s CEO when she’s in front of Congress for a second time Wednesday. A House subcommittee is investigating GM’s mishandled recall of millions of small cars for a deadly defect in ignition switches.