Posted on 11/21/2014 10:28:21 AM PST by PROCON
The House Oversight Committee is asking embattled former ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber to testify at a hearing next month on the “transparency failures” of the administration’s healthcare law.
Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Gruber on Thursday, about two weeks after videos surfaced in which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor suggested that a "lack of transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped Congress pass the Affordable Care Act.
The chairman also invited Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whose own investigation found the Obama administration had inflated its enrollment numbers by about 400,000 people, helping to lift it past the much-touted 7 million goal. “The American people deserve honesty, transparency and respect from those who forced the federal government into their healthcare,” wrote Issa in a statement Friday.
“I expect Mr. Gruber and Administrator Tavenner to testify publicly next month about the arrogance and deceptions surrounding the passage and implementation of ObamaCare,” he added.
The hearing will take place Dec. 9, the last week of the lame-duck Congress, in what would likely be the outgoing chairman’s last Oversight hearing.
When the committee’s findings on the misreported ObamaCare enrollment numbers were made public Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the error was unintentional.
But Issa remained deeply suspicious and said in a statement: “The claim that this was only accident stretches credulity.”
The toothless tiger roars again.
At least we’ll get to hear more of Gruber’s lies. Issa is at least keeping attention on this. A lot more than we can say for most of them.
And what more do you expect Issa to do?
I call upon Issa to actually do something.
Can we call up Trey to be a pinch hitter instead of the regular line up of Issa?
Anything that gets me closer to seeing these treasonous bastards hung in the town square.
Time to pay the piper. Don’t sell Issa short...waiting in God’s kingdom is a must if he tells you to ‘be still’...maybe this is what he has been waiting for.
Should be a very fun live thread!
If nothing else, at least all this stuff Issa digs up with people like this does wind up becoming part of the official record.
Years down the line historians will have a field day digging though the records of Obama's administration.
Anything that gets me closer to seeing these treasonous bastards hung in the town square.
I agree.
I’m there ... but not expecting much new from Issa.
FR FB just posted that all 30,000 of the Lerner emails havebeenfound.
Another crisis protected by the person in the VP office. IMO he’s the only thing protecting 0 from being removed
The Hapless, TOOTHLESS Issa will waste time AGAIN!!! Gruber is a sitting duck!! I could interrogate him and get him to squeal, but Darryl just won’t be able to do it....sad.....he showed some promise years ago.
I expect the Feckless One, issah, to resign his Chair and let sdomeone take over who will accomplish something. issah has been the biggest practitioner of Kabuki theatre in some tme. Limp. Weak.
Democrats were not upset by Gruber calling voters stupid because they have depended on voters being stupid for years to get reelected.
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