not okay to use these people as political leverage. the hash tag is worst responders, use that and let s ask the people who are supposed to represent us to represent us. john feel is founder of the feel good foundation, demolition supervisor at ground zero. he has been working with jon stewart to get the first responders bill renewed. he joins me now. thanks very much for being with us. what hopes do you have now? what are you hearing from congress? one, thank you for having me. i m a big fan. so thank you. we saw the fluid situation, we just left the hill last night, late last night. we haven t had much sleep but there was some outstanding issues that were resolved this morning and we are confident that we are going to get locked into the omnibus sometime tonight. there were two different drafts ready to go, one from the house with chairman upton and one from senator gillibrand whose office has been working diligently.
and i m not 100% sure that i m onboard with that. you have this massive disaster unfolding before them. that s all they need. fred upton s first questions had to do with a delay and also not ready for prime time and let s take a liss 18 the at some of the responses. start with miss campbell. sure. i mean, you all testified in september, and so, either you didn t know about these problems or you knew about them and chose not to disclose them. which one is it? chairman, from a cgi perspective, our portion of the application worked as designed. people have been able to enroll, not at the pace and not at the the experience, but the end to end testing was the responsibility of cms. our portion of the system is what we testified in terms of what was ready to go live, but
world, we leverage deep resources and expertise of a global work force. i will end this testimony where i began. by reinforcing cgi federal s unwavering commitment to working collaboratively with cms, to improve the consumer experience. thank you. thank you. mr. slavic. chairman upton, ranking member waxman and members of the committee, good morning. i m andy slavic, group vice president at optimum. the qssi, one of the contractors working in the online marketplaces. let me begin by saying this hearing now of the contractor. been dipping in and out here of the health care hearing here. the contractor is testifying. they re doing their opening statements. we gave a preview earlier. let s bring in our thursday gaggle, contributing writing,
the affordable care act are testifying before the house energy and commerce committee. we re going to keep our eyes on the hearing, we re going to bring you any news as it happens. we ll let you know, particularly what fred upton and henry waxman, the ranking democrat, are saying to these folks. up next, we re talking takeover. did the shutdown showdown open the door for democrats to really compete for control in the house? in 2014? dccc chairman steve israel joins me next for how he thinks it can be done. and as lawmakers head to florida to pay their respects to the late congressman bill young, why his district could be the canary in the coleman for democrats to figure out if they can figure out if they have a shot. today s politics planner. told you about the president and immigration. look what hillary clinton is doing today. we teased that earlier this week. tonight, a little event for the center for american progress, at one time everybody thought
today. the washington times reports in its bankruptcy filing solyndra listed as one of its creditors, the california democratic party. why solyndra may be indebted to the department krat particular party for california, no one seems to know. they say the organization was not owed funds in any form. he said it was unclear why the party would be listed as a creditor. we know that in 2009 california s democratically led legislation passed the strictest legislation in the country requiring that one-third come from renewables, including solar by 2020. investigators want to know a lot more about that. we continue to get the facts. chairman upton and subcommittee chairman stearns says there will be no witnesses interviewed at the staff level, both at the department of energy and office of management and budget. the bush administration credit review committee had recommended against this particular loan in january of 2009, and the obama