Barra as Change Agent Collides With 32-Year Career at GM
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General Motors Co.’s Mary Barra presented herself as a change agent during congressional testimony this week. Senator Barbara Boxer wasn’t buying.
“I am very disappointed, really as a woman to woman, because the culture you’re representing here today is the culture of the status quo,” said the California Democrat, who questioned Barra’s ability to change a company that took a dozen years to address ignition switch flaws linked to 13 deaths.