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WASHINGTON -- The House voted Wednesday to require the government to review a number of auto safety problems affecting children, such as backovers and power-window accidents. Transportation Department officials would need to consider ways of reducing blind zones in large SUVs and pickups, preventing vehicles from rolling away and making power windows safer.

WASHINGTON — The government would be required to examine a number of auto safety problems such as backovers and other deadly accidents involving children under a bill approved by a House committee today.

WASHINGTON -- Amid partisan sparring, a House panel has advanced a sweeping auto safety bill that critics contend is too tough on the industry. The legislation, approved 31-21 by the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the wake of the large Toyota recalls, now goes to the full House, where lawmakers hope to pass it later this year.

WASHINGTON - Amid partisan sparring, a House panel has advanced a sweeping auto safety bill that critics contend is too tough on the industry.

WASHINGTON -- The federal agency that oversees auto safety standards said Friday that it isn't necessary to require that power windows operate in reverse to prevent the injury or deaths of children who could be accidentally caught in them.