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The company also faces a possible criminal prosecution for failing to report defects to the government.
The bill would also raise penalties for failing to report defects.
Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill today that would stiffen civil and criminal penalties for failing to report defects in cars and tires.
From 1991 through 2002, Graco and its Century brand failed to report defects that could pose risks of injury or death to young children, the agency said.
PAGE B1 Bill on Defects Advances The House passed a bill that would raise civil and criminal penalties for failure to report defects in cars and tires.
The Graco unit of Newell Rubbermaid Inc. was fined a record $4 million by the Consumer Products Safety Commission for failing to report defects promptly in more than 12 million items, some of which caused deaths and injuries to children.
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"Manufacturers have certain legal obligations to report defect problems and N.H.T.S.A. has some obligations to Congress," said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who heads one of the House committees investigating the tire recall.
This observation is supported by several studies that report defect leucocyte function and increased susceptibility to infections in patients with type 2 diabetes [ 86- 88].
The aviation agency has an advantage: each commercial operator, from the biggest airline to the lowliest crop-duster, is required to have a system for reporting defects.
The plane's maintenance log showed that pilots reported defects with incorrect display of speeds and altitude and that airline mechanics worked to resolve the problems.
In 1989, to give one example, Chevrolet's main midsize sedan had something like twice as many reported defects as its competitors at Honda and Toyota, according to the J. D. Power "initial quality" metrics.
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