“Did you drive or did you have a driver? Did you drive a little and ride a little? And secondly, I guess, are you going to drive back?”

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), during Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee questioning of auto industry executives, suggesting that the decision to leave private jets in Detroit and drive to D.C. in hybrids was a stunt.

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In this video, the execs say they carpooled:

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