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White House tech expert gets subpoena to testify on HealthCare.gov
Source: Reuters
White House tech expert gets subpoena to testify on HealthCare.gov
BY ROBERTA RAMPTON
WASHINGTON Fri Nov 8, 2013 8:42pm EST
(Reuters) - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena on Friday to compel Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the White House, to testify at a hearing next week about what went wrong with the Obamacare website.
The White House called the subpoena "unfortunate and unnecessary" and said that Park was busy fixing the website. The White House earlier had said he was willing to appear voluntarily in December.
"We had hoped the committee would work with us to find an alternative date to give Todd time to focus on the immediate task at hand: getting the website fixed," said Rick Weiss, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology.
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Darrell Issa, the California Republican who chairs the committee, told Park that he was the only administration witness at the November 13 hearing who was "unwilling to appear voluntarily" and noted that he had taken time out to give an interview to the New York Times in early October.
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BY ROBERTA RAMPTON
WASHINGTON Fri Nov 8, 2013 8:42pm EST
(Reuters) - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena on Friday to compel Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the White House, to testify at a hearing next week about what went wrong with the Obamacare website.
The White House called the subpoena "unfortunate and unnecessary" and said that Park was busy fixing the website. The White House earlier had said he was willing to appear voluntarily in December.
"We had hoped the committee would work with us to find an alternative date to give Todd time to focus on the immediate task at hand: getting the website fixed," said Rick Weiss, a spokesman for the White House Office of Science and Technology.
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Darrell Issa, the California Republican who chairs the committee, told Park that he was the only administration witness at the November 13 hearing who was "unwilling to appear voluntarily" and noted that he had taken time out to give an interview to the New York Times in early October.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/09/net-us-usa-healthcare-park-idUSBRE9A801H20131109
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shouldn't they DEMAND that the WH tech expert focus on, I don't know, fixing the website? 
