Colleagues to work with us and work with these witnesses to get it right. Thank you. I yield back. Thank you for being here today. I have a series of quick questions i will like to get to. How many change orders have your received by estimate, either formally or informally leading up to the launch, and what function do they want you to perform . We have received approximately eight change orders. When was the most recent . I believe as recent as august of this year. Ok. I dont know the answer to that, but i think was a low number. Ok. Are you both making changes now with code in order to fix any of the socalled glitches or nonperformance issues question mark that would be yes. How many organizational boundaries between the piece of information traveling from the United States government to the web portal, how many boundaries, how many organizational boundaries, including the states and their access to information does that piece of art man cross does that piece of information cross . I
The problems associated with the new health care website. And a rally protesting the nsas surveillance program. We want to welcome back to congressman fred upton, chairman of the energy and Commerce Committee. Politico andof Siobhan Hughes of the wall street journal. Siobhan, go ahead. What was your take away from the hearing yesterday . Where will you go from here . Will you issue subpoenas . , we wantedy sebelius her to come last week. She chose not to. Other scheduling conflicts, she said. We have her coming next week to chi will give us at least three hours. There will be a lot of questions. There was a line that was on the front page of your paper, i dont remember the byline. It was like a lot of fingers and no palm. A lot of fingers pointing as to who the blame is. We need to get to the bottom of this. This has not been a story just in the last week or so. We started our investigation last summer. We heard testimony earlier this year, a good number of letters as well. The adminis
They have. This was the president s quote, just visit healthcare. Gov and there you can compare insurance plans side by side the same way youd shop for a plane ticket or a t. V. While yall were testifying i went on amazon and looked for a t. V. Within one minute i had over 300,000 options of t. V. s that i could purchase and they were low cost t. V. s too. I tried to go on healthcare. Gov to register earlier this week. I spent more than two hours. Was kicked out four times. Had to reenter data multiple times. Was given blank screnals a number of times. Ultimately never got to a place i could see Healthcare Plans where i could compare side by side like the president promised. Its not the experience you get when people go online and purchase products. This is a product the federal government said you have to buy by law or you get find. And were asking for at least a delay of the fine while people cant even go to the website that doesnt work. I used to Program Computers for a living. I un
Were really operating with 20th Century Technology in the 21st century. Woodruff and Robert Macneil returns to talk about his latest novel. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff president obama moved today to put out a political firestorm and let people keep their existing Health Insurance policies for now. He said the government will suspend the requirement that individual plans meet minimum standards at least for one year. Its up to Insurance Co
Firearms and explosives. B. Todd jones talks about the challenge of reigning in gun violence. Were really operating with 20th Century Technology in the 21st century. Woodruff and Robert Macneil returns to talk about his latest novel. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff president obama moved today to put out a political firestorm and let people keep their existing Health Insurance policies for now. He said the government will suspend the requirem