Posted on 11/13/2013 8:28:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The White House sent the administration’s chief technology officer to testify Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee on the botched ObamaCare rollout, complying with a subpoena issued by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
Issa and Chief Technology Officer Todd Park appeared to share a laugh as they greeted one another ahead of the hearing.
As late as Tuesday, the White House had declined to say whether Park would appear with other witnesses. Park’s subpoena has sparked intense political fighting between Democrats and Republicans.
As Wednesday's hearing began, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the ranking Democrat on the panel, thundered that Issa had “crossed the line” with the subpoena.
“I believe you owe Mr. Park an apology, not a subpoena,” Cummings said.
Early in the hearing, Cummings seethed at Issa, who on numerous occasions said he was sending Park back to the minority party so he could be allowed to “rehabilitate” his image.
The ranking Democrat had already accused Issa of slandering Park in an interview on Fox News last week. The chairman told the network Park was “engaging in a pattern of interference and false statements” by misrepresenting website test results that showed how much capacity the site could handle ahead of its launch.
Cummings said that “all we have is our reputation” and asked Park to respond directly to Issa’s comment.
“Let me ask you this way,” Cummings said. “Did you engage in a pattern of interference and false statements?”
“No I did not,” Park replied. “I relayed my best understanding at the time and I’ll continue to do that as my understanding gets better.”
Park kept cool as the committee leaders locked horns.
“I don’t take any of this personally,” he said.
The administration has argued that by demanding that Park appear before the panel, Republicans were preventing him from working to fix the website.
Issa says he’s offered a handful of opportunities for Park to speak in front of his committee but was continuously rebuffed by the White House, which said Park was too busy to appear.
Issa said Park’s “long history of involvement in the development and rollout of HealthCare.Gov” made his testimony crucial to ensuring the site gets fixed.
White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday bemoaned the ”unnecessary step” of Issa’s subpoena, and said the administration informed Issa that Park would be available at some point.
Park reiterated that point on Wednesday, but did so in a gracious nod to Issa.
“I’m the son of immigrants of Korea, I have incredible love for this country, I have huge respect for this institution and its role in our democracy,” he said. “If the committee wanted me to be here today, and decided I should be here today, then I’m happy to be here today.”
But Park was primarily summoned to brief lawmakers on the status of the broken HealthCare.Gov website.
In his opening statement, Park acknowledged that the website experience has been “highly frustrating for many Americans.”
“These problems are unacceptable,” he said.
“The team is making progress,” added. “The website is getting better each week, as we work to improve its performance, its stability, and its functionality. As a result, more and more individuals are successfully creating accounts, logging in, and moving on to apply for coverage and shop for plans. We have much work still to do, but are making progress at a growing rate.”
More lies..
but what can one expect from the most Corrupt administration aka regime ever to OCCUPY DC.
Grow up, Cummings.
“We have much work still to do, but are making progress at a growing rate.”
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Taxpayers already paid to build the website. Now they are paying again for the re-build. Why are we paying twice for the same thing and where did the re-do money suddenly come from???? Is this a bottomless pit?
Congress needs to find out how this is all being funded.
Where did the six hundred million go?
Representative Cummings. Taking a cue from the Senate, your status as “ranking Democrat” on a panel chaired by a member of the MAJORITY PARTY amounts to a pile of Chihuahua Dog Squeeze. Sit down, shut up and take your medicine ‘worker’.
As disgusting a phony, and as reprobate a hater, as has ever drawn or spat a rancid breath. I'd like to be there when he passes so I can be the first (among many) to pittle on his long-overdue corpse. No, really.
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Half probably went into Obama's reelection campaign, and the other half into his retirement fund.
Cooper is a blathering idiot. Who claims him?
The only explanation for the exorbitant amount of funds being allocated to this Obamacare website is that the funds are being siphoned off for black projects, probably TSA,Homeland Security, and FEMA.
After all, how else will Obama build a national army equal to or greater in strength than the US military? He promised that he would do that. Do we think he is not working on it?
From whence would the money come, when there is no budget, by design. What a great way to hide money from the public.
Where did the 600 million go? Does anyone ask THIS?
Toni Townes-Whitley, Senior Vice President at "CGI Federal" for
Civilian Agency programs, healthcare.gov designers is Princeton Class of
1985---same dumbed-down class as Michelle Obama. Both are members of
the racial separatist organization----Association of Black Princeton Alumni.
" At Princeton, Michele and I took intellectually challenging courses like
Black Is Beautiful, How To Intimidate Employers with The Civil Rights Act,
Getting Ahead Using Your Skin Color, with graduate studies in Pay-Me-I'm-
A- Victim methodologies."
I’m so glad I got to hear the George Bush’s cousin routine trotted out by Elijah Cummings. I just about fell out of my chair, except I was standing. You just can’t make this stuff up. Democrats are lying sleazeballs and it is beyond belief how anyone could be a member of the party. Not that the cousin thing was a lie, it was just totally irrelevant.
Equally interesting is the same thought (lying sleazeballs) is on the mind of most democrats vis-a-vis Republicans. Someone is really wrong.
- Why doesn’t the so-called federal government require “performance bonds” of the Obamacare IT contractors like the states usually require of private building construction firm?
- This would provide penalties and financial insurance in event of incompetence, corruption, and non-performance with contracts….
- How about a resume of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter - who is finanically benefitting from the Obamacare mess as her husband is a principal of an IT firm…...
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Laura Jarret and hubby. More on Balkisoon's dad below.
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WIKI---Bas Balkissoon---RESIDES IN TORONTO---MEMBER Ontario Liberal Party---Tahay, spouse, three children
Born 1952 (age 60–61)-- Trinidad and Tobago, Indian ancestry
Bas Balkissoon (born ca. 1952) is a politician in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Toronto city councillor representing Ward 41 in northeast area of Scarborough, Balkissoon won election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario on November 24, 2005 as the Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Scarborough—Rouge River.
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, and of Indian descent, Balkissoon rose to prominence as the head of Scarborough Homeowners Alliance For Fair Taxes, an organization that challenged the province's property assessment system. In 1988, he ran for Scarborough city council in what was then Ward 13.
He currently serves as Deputy Speaker and Chair of the Committee of the Whole House (2011–present) and as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Community and Social Services (2010–present).
Yep, thats it. The next deadline will be missed because of this hearing. Drat.
Cummings is unfortunately one of mine here, a product of redistricting.
Townes-Whitley and Michelle Obama hosted communists and pro-terrorist speaker at Princeton.
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