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Dems demand Issa withdraw subpoena
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:13 pm
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The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee on Monday demanded that Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) withdraw a “misguided” subpoena of an official who is working to fix the federal ObamaCare website.
In a blistering letter, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) accused Issa of hurling “unfounded accusations” against Todd Park, the administration’s chief technology officer (CTO).
“The evidence before our Committee demonstrates that Mr. Park is an honest and exemplary public servant, and your unsubstantiated public attacks against his integrity are a deficient basis on which to justify a subpoena against him,” Cummings wrote with Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.).
Cummings said Issa’s subpoena was “diverting Mr. Park’s energies” from his work and could “seriously impair” the race to repair HealthCare.gov.
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Issa subpoenaed Park last week, ordering him to testify Wednesday before the Oversight Committee.
The committee chairman said he 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.
“Millions of Americans have lost their health insurance and are rapidly approaching a point where they must begin to prepare for the possibility of having no health insurance,” Issa wrote in his subpoena letter. “They deserve your sworn testimony before their elected representatives about what went wrong.”
Park’s office lashed out after the subpoena was issued.
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Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:17 pm to wickowick
$600M for a fricking website.... People should be beat with baseball bat for that alone.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:17 pm to wickowick
If Mr. Park does not appear, maybe Issa can subpoena the people who set up the Oregon exchange.
That should be an equally fascinating set of testimony.
That should be an equally fascinating set of testimony.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:18 pm to i am dan
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$600M for a fricking website.... People should be beat with baseball bat for that alone.
The federal one at least nominally worked at some point.
The Oregon one? Lots of money, so fricked up that they chucked it and went to paper forms.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:19 pm to wickowick
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“diverting Mr. Park’s energies” from his work and could “seriously impair” the race to repair HealthCare.gov.
I thought all was well, and everything was fixed and wonderful
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:19 pm to wickowick
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)
Stopped reading here
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:21 pm to wickowick
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The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee on Monday demanded
And not a frick was given nor should it be
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:36 pm to TrueTiger
Do we deserve an explanation for why it needed repair in the first place? Do we deserve an explanation for the costs incurred to date for development and subsequent repair? Do we deserve an explanation of the estimated time and cost to complete the repairs?
Claiming that having Mr. Park appear to provide some of these explanations is an unreasonable diversion of his time is simply preposterous. If you claim his attention to this is absolutely essential, then how can you possibly excuse Obama's diversion of attention from Benghazi? Didn't it seriously impair our ability to respond to events? Why is one diversion tolerable and another not?
Claiming that having Mr. Park appear to provide some of these explanations is an unreasonable diversion of his time is simply preposterous. If you claim his attention to this is absolutely essential, then how can you possibly excuse Obama's diversion of attention from Benghazi? Didn't it seriously impair our ability to respond to events? Why is one diversion tolerable and another not?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:45 pm to Poodlebrain
Never let a community organizer do a man's job.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:48 pm to upgrayedd
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)
Stopped reading here
That's the guy that was actually caught directing the IRS attacks on 501's, wasn't it?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 1:51 pm to CamdenTiger
Cummings needs to be subpoena'd
Posted on 7/15/14 at 2:08 pm to goldennugget
oh Brother Elijah......
Posted on 7/15/14 at 2:49 pm to wickowick
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The committee chairman said he 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.
Hence, the subpoena.
Posted on 7/15/14 at 4:09 pm to goldennugget
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Cummings needs to be subpoena'd
Why, just because he's tried to obstruct Issa from getting information on any topic from day 1? Or because he was involved in using the IRS as a weapon against political opponents?
Posted on 7/15/14 at 4:11 pm to ironsides
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Cummings needs to be subpoena'd
Why, just because he's tried to obstruct Issa from getting information on any topic from day 1? Or because he was involved in using the IRS as a weapon against political opponents?
Yes.
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